Today P3 had two special visitors. Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Goldie from RHET ( The Royal Highland Educational Trust) ran a farming workshop for us prior to our trip to a beef farm tomorrow and a dairy farm next week. We learned about the different kinds of farms there are, and the food products we eat from them. After identifying and handling different crops all the children took turns to grind some flour from wheat. They used a traditional stone quern or portable grinder first and then sieved the product to produce lovely fresh flour! Next it was on to butter making. In teams the pupils shook cream in a sealed tub really quickly while counting to ten in French (great multi-tasking!). They then passed the tub to the next pupil in their team. After 5 minutes had past with much laughter, our shookly lot saw that they had made some fresh golden butter. We couldn’t resist tasting our product with some tasty Scottish: bread, oatcake or crumpet with a side helping of cheese and tomatoes. All washed down with lovely fresh milk!
