Fun on the Farm Volume 1!

 

What a day Year 2 had at Sandfield-on-Sea recently!  Sorry ... Sandfield Farm!  But we felt like we were at the seaside as we looked at the farm and the activities we enjoy in a different light.  We even had typical British seaside weather: fairly warm but windy with a couple of showers.

We started off with a recap of what we needed to remember to stay safe on the farm: we're really good at this now, which will help us to stay safe when we're out and about in other places as well as the farm.  Then we were off to the den-building woods to make our own beach huts.  On the way, we walked carefully across a field that has been planted with stubble turnips ready for the cows to eat in the winter: on Christmas Day, they will have eaten their way across the whole field!  Huge round bales of straw are also in the field, ready to give the cows something nice to lie on.  At the moment, they're brilliant drums.

We stopped to look at the electricity pylons that cross the fields.  Because the air was damp, we could hear the wires humming so some of us didn't want to get too close.  We noticed that the pylons had their own number on a plaque so if something goes wrong, the National Grid know exactly where the problem is.

Once in the woods, we got to work on our huts.  We had different ideas about how to build them and what to put in them.  Some of us included doors, others included seats, and some even thought about toilets!  It was interesting to see how different our huts all were. 





After a quick snack, we went up to the pond where we built clay castles.  We found out that the pond is lined with clay and Emma and Mrs Capaldi dug some up for us to build with.  Our castles were fantastic!  We loved getting the clay between our fingers and feeling how squishy it was and we were all amazing architects and builders.



In the afternoon, we explored the play wood.  We liked the new music room, with its drums and pipes, and we were fascinated by the Guinea Fowl who are living in the wood at the moment: what a funny noise they make!  But most of all, we enjoyed playing together and using our imaginations.