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Tegwen visits Tycroes County Primary School[/caption]
The FUW dairy cow Tegwen – Welsh for “fair” and “white” – painted in the colours of the Welsh flag and known to highlight the FUW campaign to achieve a fair farmgate price for milk, has been to visit school children in Carmarthenshire to bring a bit of the countryside to the classroom.
Visiting the reception class at Tycroes County Primary School, Tycroes, Ammanford, ‘Tegwen’ this time round helped to showcase where dairy products come from.
Tycroes County Primary School teacher Valerie Davies was eager to follow a visit to Folly Farm up with an interactive lesson on dairy cows and their products and the FUW was delighted to accept the invitation.
FUW’s marketing and membership manager Caryl Roberts facilitated an interactive lesson, with educational material sourced from education resource website ‘Countryside Classroom’ and FACE Cymru (Farming and Countryside Education), to the reception class about milk and dairy farming as well as bringing Tegwen to help and brought samples of local cheddar and three types of milk to taste.
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FUW marketing and membership manager Caryl Roberts brought samples of local cheddar for the children at Tycroes County Primary School[/caption]
Caryl Roberts said: “It’s essential for children to learn very early on about where their food comes from.
“Not only does it broaden their understanding of the origin of food and drink but also gives them an insight into their rural community.
“Resources from Countryside Classroom and FACE Cymru made it easy for me to prepare a suitable lesson for the children. It also helps to take samples of locally produced cheddar as a reward for listening so intently.”
The FUW has a long standing commitment to helping children learn about food, farming and the natural environment and is keen to further help in bringing the countryside into the classroom of schools across Wales.
Free educational materials can be found on the Countryside Classroom website http://countrysideclassroom.org.uk/ and bilingual material is available from the FACE Cymru website http://www.face-cymru.org.uk/.
The materials are categorised by key stage or age with a variety of different formats such as games, activities, quiz’s and presentations.