Many of the children attending Faraway Tree Day Nursery in Derby are interested in animals but have limited opportunities to explore outside of the city, so staff decided to widen their experiences by taking them on a day trip to a dairy farm. Not only did they get to meet lots of animals during their visit to Bluebells Farm Park in Spondon, Derbyshire, but they even watched a cow give birth.
what they did
Staff prepared children for the farm trip by showing them pictures of the animals and sharing books on farms. At Bluebells, the children were taken on a farmer-guided visit, which included:
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