Science on the Farm

British Science and Engineering Week
Supported by the National Assembly for Wales and FACE

The Event provided practical ‘hands on’ examples of activities in the ‘outdoor classroom’ relevant to the National Curriculum for infant, primary and home educated children from Newtown Powys. Hosted by Dr Michele Becker and her husband on their farm near Llanidloes participants experienced in rotation and according to the Key Stage e.g.Biology, Mathematics, Geography and Chemistry. The skills of observation, recording, data collection, measurement and analysis as well as the planning of experiments (AT1) will be covered.
Each teacher will be provided with a folder of reference material to take back to school covering the practicalities of farm visits (health and safety – including the new HOOF folder produced by the HSE, risk assessments, pre-visit and farmers’ perspective), national curriculum links for science at the various Key Stages and resources.
There will be a display of resource materials available to schools provided by the CAFE Project and examples of work sheets and instructions both for activities on the farm and for use in the class room prior to a visit and as follow up. Schools attending or expressing an interest will receive follow-up contact to book farm visits in the Spring to facilitate early experience of the benefits.

This event is supported by the National Assembly of Wales and
the British Association for the Advancement of Science