Love a bit of alliteration..!

What an amazing day we have had today at Kirkcolm, we have been lucky enough to partake in an afternoon of farming innovation and fun on a glorious sunny autumn day! This is all thanks to the P1-4’s topic this term – Farm to Fork. The little people have been looking at all things farm related and today was a great day to see everything first hand. 

We had Grant Hurcumb, Jack Milroy (who was kind enough to let us use one of his fields to host all this!) and Ian McKnight to inform us of all things sheep related. We got a first hand look at some sheep shearing by Grant as well as learning about all the different ways the farmer looks after his sheep and the precautions needed. From vaccinations to types of feed – we covered it all! 

Steven Adams and Angus Brown brought some machinery for us to have a look at, this included a tractor and a chopper (we got extremely well acquainted with the horn on both of these…) As well as that, Steven managed to wrangle Blossom the sheep down for us to feed and swoon over, as well as two lovely little calves! 

Stuart McCrindle brought down some more sheep and sheep dogs! We got an amazing sheep dog demonstration as well as getting to meet the cutest wee sheep dog pup that stole the hearts of all the pupils and adults alike! WE all took a vote in naming the new pup and Olivia Johnstone from Kirkcolm was the lucky name pulled with the beautiful (and monosyllabic) name of; Jem.

Finally, Leswalt’s own Alexander Clark had some auctioneering fun with us where he demonstrated what exactly happens at a real auction and the groups attempted to out bid each other for the sheep of choice! 

Overall, what a fab time we have had and what a treat it is to be able to bring all 3 schools together. Thanks to all for coming down and a huge thank you to Mrs McKnight, the lady with the super farming connections who brought a lot of this together!