On Wednesday this week, we visited Shothill Farm in Lanarkshire. It is a real working farm so most people don’t get to go and visit but because it is our topic this term, we were lucky enough to be invited.

In the time we were there, we learned an amazing amount about the jobs that a farmer does. Parents and carers, why not ask your child to tell you about: how long a cow is pregnant; how many times a day a cow is milked; where the farmer gets the cow food from; why it is good to keep alpacas near chickens; what time of the day cows need milked; how many bottles of milk you get from a cow in a day; which foods are made from the milk; how the farmer gets the milk from the cows; which chickens lay brown eggs; which chickens lay white eggs; where in the farm are there computers and what do computers have with feeding baby calves?