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Agriculture Students Make TV Debut

Last Sunday our school was featured on BBC’s Countryfile. During the show, Adam Henson and the Countryfile team spent time with our agriculture students to find out about the GCSE course in Agriculture that we run.

Our students had a fantastic time filming with the team when they visited us back in November. The first day of filming was spent at the school, where the production team took some wonderful drone footage of the school grounds, including our farm garden. Mrs Lloyd, Science Teacher and Course Lead for Agriculture, Dr Clarkson, Head of Science & PE and Matthew Parr-Burman, Executive Headteacher were interviewed by Adam Henson and the students were asked questions about the course and the experiment they were carrying out on the PH balance of soil in the farm garden. The filming continued later on in the day, in the science classroom where students carried out tests on the soil samples they collected.

On the second day of filming our agriculture students visited Briddlesford Farm, who we have been working with for some time as part of our Agriculture GCSE. During this visit to the farm, students had an informative session with the farm vet Hannah Kenway who taught them how to care for cows and calves. The students were then given the opportunity to feed and halter train the calves. It was an amazing experience!

We are very proud of our agriculture students; they did a fantastic job of representing the school. We must also say a big thank you to the staff involved in our Farm Club and GCSE in Agriculture, particularly Mrs Lloyd, who has been the driving force for getting this off the ground!

You can watch the show on iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/m001hrww