{"id":9616,"date":"2023-02-03T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:37:24","slug":"a-farming-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2023\/02\/03\/a-farming-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Farming Chat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">We are very grateful that Ross McColm (parent of Sophie and Gregor) took time out of his break home to come in and have a chat with the pupils. Ross knew the boys and girls had been doing farming as their topic recently and he had some experience in that field himself!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Ross spoke about how he works away for a company which builds gigantic industrial farming buildings in Saudi Arabia and has helped create the largest chicken farm in the world!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">This also served as a great cultural experience for the boys and girls to learn about a culture so completely different from our own and Ross was able to offer that experience to them. The afternoon was finished off with some Arabic sweet treats for the pupils to enjoy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Thank you very much for your time Ross and from the chatter today, it seems they enjoyed their afternoon!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9616 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2023\/02\/03\/a-farming-chat\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133519\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133519\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133519\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133519\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133519\/4a927379-f73e-426b-8a9c-f2b8872cb85e.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2023\/02\/03\/a-farming-chat\/img_7431\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133527\/IMG_7431-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133527\/IMG_7431-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133527\/IMG_7431-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133527\/IMG_7431-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2023\/02\/03\/a-farming-chat\/img_7433\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133532\/IMG_7433-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133532\/IMG_7433-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133532\/IMG_7433-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2023\/02\/03133532\/IMG_7433-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very grateful that Ross McColm (parent of Sophie and Gregor) took time out of his break home to come in and have a chat with the pupils. Ross knew the boys and girls had been doing farming as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2023\/02\/03\/a-farming-chat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}