Teacher’s Resource Pack: KS2This pack and our accompanying Moseki Meerkat’s Activity Pack: KS2 will help you get the most from your school visit to Lee Valley Park Farms. It covers curriculum areas including English, maths, science, history, geography, design and technology, and art. Our ideas and activities can be used before, during and after your visit to our farm.

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I SAW THE ANIMALS ATLEE VALLEYPARK FARMS! I’M A LEE

VALLEY FARMER BEFORE YOURVISIT!

DURING YOURVISIT!

AFTER YOURVISIT!

Let’s get started• Before your visit, complete our Missing Mum and Dad sheet in Moseki Meerkat’s Activity Pack, then discuss and research baby animal names and male and female animal names.

• You could also learn about collective animal nouns, e.g. a gaggle of geese, a herd of cows. Why not make up your own funny versions, such as a waddle of ducks?

• Our Farm Animal Word Search reveals some of the more unusual animals at Lee Valley Park Farms, such as the llama and miniature zebu. Investigate these animals and where they come from.

• Look at farms in other countries with different habitats, such as Siberia or the Middle East. How do these farms differ from ones in the UK? What animals do they have? Investigate how much impact the weather has on farming.

• Holyfield Hall Farm at Lee Valley Park Farms is a dairy farm, but we also raise cows for beef and we are an arable farm, growing wheat, barley and maize, which is used for animal feed and bedding. Discuss other crops grown by farmers and how they are used.

• Research wheat, barley and maize, and what these crops need in order to grow healthily. Also complete the Maize Maze sheet in our activity pack. Which foods are these crops turned into? Have you ever eaten them?

Do you know what I am? You’ll find me at Lee Valley Park

Farms too!

© Vibrant Partnerships Teacher’s Resource Pack: KS2

I SAW THE ANIMALS ATLEE VALLEYPARK FARMS! I’M A LEE

VALLEY FARMER BEFORE YOURVISIT!

DURING YOURVISIT!

AFTER YOURVISIT!

Try milk maths!• Have a go at our Milk Maths sheet in Moseki Meerkat’s Activity Pack, and put together some more milk-based maths problems for your pupils to solve. Here are some interesting facts about Lee Valley Park Farms to help you get started:

We have 150 Holstein Friesian dairy cows on our farm.

After giving birth, each cow can be milked for 305 days.

During that time, each cow produces 8,000 litres of milk.

Our milking parlour machines can milk 16 cows at a time.

All 150 cows can be milked in 1½ hours.

• Talk about modern liquid measurements and the difference between pints and litres. (8,000 litres of milk is the same as just over 14,000 pints of milk.) Look at the label on a milk carton to see both measurements – 1 pint and 568ml.

• Ask pupils to fill up measuring jugs which have pint and millilitre measurements on them so they can see what a pint of milk looks like. How many glasses of milk can you get from a pint?

In a lifetime, the average cow produces an estimated 200,000 glasses of milk! Wow!

Also try this...

© Vibrant Partnerships Teacher’s Resource Pack: KS2

I SAW THE ANIMALS ATLEE VALLEYPARK FARMS! I’M A LEE

VALLEY FARMER BEFORE YOURVISIT!

DURING YOURVISIT!

AFTER YOURVISIT!

• Read a farm-related book to your class to give everyone an idea of life on the farm. Great reads include Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of a Pig by Emer Stamp, and Michael Rosen’s funny poem, Cows: michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/new-poem-called-cowsfor-you-to-try-out.html

• For more information on our farm, see our KS2 Field to Fridge Guide, which is designed to accompany our guided tour: visitleevalley.org.uk/en/content/cms/education/teachers-packs/#F2F-TP

Make sure you take a ride on Tex the Tractor

while you’re here!

While you’re here...

© Vibrant Partnerships Teacher’s Resource Pack: KS2

I SAW THE ANIMALS AT

LEE VALLEYPARK FARMS! I’M A LEE VALLEY FARMERBEFORE YOUR

VISIT!

DURING YOURVISIT!

AFTER YOURVISIT!

• Ask your pupils to complete their Spotter’s Guides and Moseki Meerkat’s Mega Quiz.

• What else can you spot? Holyfield Hall Farm is an environmentally friendly farm. We leave a wide strip around the edge of every field where wildflowers and grasses can grow freely to encourage wildlife. This is known as a ‘wildlife corridor’. We also plant sunflowers and millet to attract birds, and we have introduced ponds to create a wetland habitat. Encourage observation skills and ask pupils to look out for bees, butterflies and birds. • On the journey home, ask your class to write a poem inspired by their visit. Give them a line to get started:

1. Today I saw a...

2. Snoozing on the yellow hay...

3. The farmer rises before dawn...

I saw a goat in a smart brown coat!

© Vibrant Partnerships Teacher’s Resource Pack: KS2

I SAW THE ANIMALS AT

LEE VALLEYPARK FARMS! I’M A LEE VALLEY FARMERBEFORE YOUR

VISIT!

DURING YOURVISIT!

AFTER YOURVISIT!• How much did everyone learn at our milking parlour? Find out using our From Farm to Fridge sequencing challenge in Moseki Meerkat’s Activity Pack. Act out the farm to fridge process, with children playing the roles of cow, farmer, farm hands, driver, shopkeeper and so on.

• Complete our Milk Investigation sheet and taste test different types of milk. Ask pupils to create charts, awarding each type of milk marks out of 10.

• For our Design a Label task, bring in empty cartons and bottles, look at milk labels and discuss how they differ in colour for whole milk, semi-skimmed and skimmed. Extend the project and ask your pupils to design posters for their new milk product. What adjectives will they use to let shoppers know it is special?

• Ask everyone to invent a new ice cream flavour. Which flavours work best together? What ingredients will they need? Where can they get them from? For a simple food science experiment, make easy vanilla ice cream in class:

bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2365638/instant-vanilla-ice-cream

• Finally, ask your pupils to complete our Lee Valley Park Farms Diary, recording a day in the life of a worker or an animal from our farm. This information sheet from ‘Food A Fact Of Life’ is helpful:

foodafactoflife.org.uk/attachments/77171311-7511-4ed0aa8cd494.pdf

Let’s keep learning...

What else can you make from farm

products?

*There are several hand washing points within Lee Valley Park Farms. Each point is equipped with warm water, antibacterial soap and hand towels. Prior to leaving the venue, please ensure children are supervised and wash their hands properly before they leave the farm.