On the 25th February our 10s year group enjoyed a gloriously sunny day out on a Geography Department trip which took them to Rushall Farm near Bradfield in Berkshire. The group were introduced to both the traditional and modern aspects of this mixed farm which accommodates organic beef and lamb production alongside bean and cereal arable crops.
They also discovered how the farm has diversified to pay its way in the modern age. Among the innovations that students saw on their tour were the traditional threshing barn which has now become an education centre, a venue for weddings and parties.
Highlights for the children included feeding the chickens with seeds and looking at how they laid their eggs, sitting on an old tractor and pretending they were driving it, seeing the cows and sheep (that eventually go to Sainsburys!), using a shovel and digging a hole in the soil to see and feel what type it was, sitting on a trailer on the back of a moving tractor and taking in the different sites on the farm.
