One of our Learning Outcomes is to know about foods that are produced on Scottish Farms so we’ve tried to think like farmers and see what we could produce.

In a large pot outside in the playground, we planted some wheat seeds. Out there, they would get everything they need to grow like, water, heat and air. As it’s been quite hot and dry weather, we’ve had to make sure to go and water the seeds each day. We know that the seeds from wheat are taken and ground up to make flour.

In the class we used our maths skills to measure out all the ingredients to make soda bread. Everyone helped and obviously, we all had to wash our hands and make sure not to cough into our hands or touch anything, while we were preparing our dough. The scales showed the weight of the flour and the millilitres of liquid that we had. We had to read the numbers properly and work out if we needed more or less and how much more etc. The ladies in the Rainbow Room let us use the oven and after 30 minutes (we know that is 1/2 an hour!), it was ready and smelling amazing.

In a clean jam jar, we put some double cream and a clean marble. It was like a mini butter churn. Over the course of a whole morning, we all took turns to shake the jars and by lunch time, we had butter! It was popped into the fridge over night to harden a little bit more.

The next day, just before morning break, we all washed our hands again and enjoyed eating our fabulous bread and butter. As we had some spare, we shared it with all the grown-ups in the school and we were given so many compliments for our amazing food production.