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Our 2022 competition is kindly sponsored by

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Our 2022 competition is kindly sponsored by

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Anglian Water

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The Countryside Code - a short video from Natural England

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The Countryside Code - a short video from Natural England

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Find out all about the Countryside Code here, also see the game below!

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This lesson plan provides a fun game to consolidate the learning of The Countryside Code from the poster in the post before.

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An introduction into the fun and interactive learning challenge. The Ripple Effect is a project from Essex & Suffolk Water.

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Essex & Suffolk Water have this amazing fun and interactive activities in the link below to learn about the importance of protecting our water resources.

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When we all make small changes to our water use, we can make big waves in protecting our precious water supply. That's why we are inviting school communities to get involved in our new education programme, The Ripple Effect.

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Attached are all the details you need to enter the Schools Day competition for 2022. We can't wait to see your entries, and see some of you in person at the Essex Young Farmers Show on 22nd May!

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We REALLY want to see you all in action with some of the activities that we've given you. It really will mean so much and make it all worthwhile!

Please send any photos and/or videos to me (Rebecca Halls) at essexschoolsday@gmail.com

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If your school is on social media, then feel free to add your photos or videos to your page as well as emailing them to us!

Don't forget to tag us in your post and use these #esffd2022 #essexschoolsday #essexagsociety

@essexagriculturalsociety (Facebook)
@EssexAgSociety (Twitter)
@essexschoolsday (Instagram)

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You should have received this by email, but if not, please can you ensure you complete and return it by email to essexschoolsday@gmail.com.

Thank you.

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Please take a minute to complete our Post Event Feedback Survey

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Kelly Turkeys

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Tiptree Jam

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Harlow Agricultural Merchants

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Writtle University College takes us on a quick tour of their pif production side of their farm.

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Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd

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Ernest Doe have very kindly put together this video explaining all the main machinery used on an Essex farm during a farming year.

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Here is a powerpoint presentation reiterating the 'Field to Fork' process of our food.

(There are lesson notes for this presentation on a separate section)

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Where does our food come from - Schools Day 2022 presentation

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Essex NFU Trust

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This is the machinery video from our 2021 event. Watch this video to get an insight into the main machinery used for the key jobs on the farm during the year.
(make sure you're watching carefully as there are questions at the end....!)

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Watch this video on lambing at Writtle University College

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Writtle University College - Lambing 2022

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Welcome to the 2022 Essex Schools Food & Farming Day

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Welcome to the 2022 Essex Schools Food & Farming Day

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A warm welcome to you all from Annabelle, the chairman of the Essex Schools Food & Farming Day.

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This video shows you how they make sausages at Great Garnetts Farm in Dunmow

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This is your teacher briefing video. It is a tour of the padlet, explaining what to do first, and how to get the most out of this opportunity.

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Sign up for NFU's Science Farm LIVE lessons 

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Bring learning to life, and connect your students to the frontiers of knowledge. Choose from live lesson broadcasts or book a 1-to-1 webinar.

14-17 March

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NFU Science Farm Live 2022 | Encounter Edu

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To celebrate British Science Week this year, we are taking you on an adventure to explore the Great British countryside and meet the people who look after its landscapes and animals.

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Organic Farming in Essex - Sarah Green's Organics

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Organic Farming in Essex - Sarah Green's Organics

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Sarah Green shows us around her organic vegetable farm in Essex. They produce seasonal vegetables all year round and supply local farm shops, restaurants as well as running a delivery of boxed vegetables to the local area.

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Organic vegetable farming in Essex - by Sarah Green's Organics

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Writtle University College has kindly put together a video explaining the basics of soil science, including pH testing.

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Soil Science - by Writtle University College - for Essex Schools Day

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A short video showing what the Soil Association organic symbol really means.

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Why choose organic? What the Soil Association organic symbol really means

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Find out about your local humble Christmas turkey!

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Find out how local Essex company Tiptree make their world famous delicious jam. Then enjoy sampling it yourself from the mini jars you have got in your package from us! Enjoy!

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Twinkl - British Foods Seasonality Calendar

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What should I do with the flour I've been given?

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What should I do with the flour I've been given?

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As part of the Event Package, you will be given a bag of flour from Marriage's, the Master Millers based in Chelmsford. If you are not receiving this package, maybe you could get a pack of flour yourself from a local store to still take part in this activity?

With this, we would love for you to make something to help the children link the field to fork concept! We have put a few recipe ideas below, which you can choose depending on what facilities you have in your school.

Please post photos or videos of you  cooking if you can! Either email them to essexschoolsday@gmail.com or you can post them directly to our social media, but make sure you tag 'Essex Agricultural Society' in the post and use the #essexschoolsday22

Good luck & enjoy!!

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Find out what a dairy cow gets up to in a typical day.

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On the farm - a day in the life of an Arla dairy farmer

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Here is a written version on the Teacher Briefing for 2022.

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Flatbreads are cooked all over the world from Mexican tortillas to Indian chapatis. They are great served soft, filled with slaw or falafels, or baked until crisp and served with dips, soups or stews.

Ingredients

200g/7oz plain or wholemeal flour

100ml/3½fl oz warm water

2 tbsp oil (olive, sunflower or vegetable), plus extra for cooking

Method

1. Kid's job: Place the flour and salt in a large bowl and trickle on the water bit by bit.

2. Kid's job: Mix the water and flour mixture together. Kids can mix using one finger so that they don't get a whole hand covered in dough. Doughy hands can be cleaned by rubbing a little more flour onto the hands over another bowl or the bin - resist the urge to wash doughy hands as you will block the drain!

3. Kid's job: Add the oil and knead the dough - you are aiming for a soft dough. If it is too sticky, add a little more flour or if it is too dry, add a splash of water.

4. Kid's job: Knead the dough for 5 minutes - kids can do this in the bowl or on a clean surface using one or two hands.

5. You can cook the breads straight away or leave the dough to stand for about 30 minutes. This is a good time to make a quick filling such as a grated salad or dip. Divide the dough into four balls (or six if you have a smaller frying pan).

6. Kid's job: On a clean surface, roll each ball of dough one at a time using a rolling pin. If you pick up and move round the flatbread often you know it hasn't stuck. (You may need to sprinkle a little flour on the surface but only use a little as too much will dry out the dough.) Don't worry if they aren't perfect circles!

7. Adult's job: Heat a large frying pan. Take a sheet of kitchen paper and rub a little oil onto the surface of the pan. Cook each flatbread for about 2 minutes on one side - it should puff up a little. Flip the flatbread over using tongs and then cook for a couple of minutes on the other side. The flatbread should have turned lighter in colour and may have a few spots of brown. Keep the cooked flatbreads warm, wrapped in foil or a clean teatowel, until the others are cooked.

8. If you want crisp flatbreads rub them with a little olive oil, chop into strips or triangles with scissors and then ask an adult to fry them for 5-10 minutes, or until crisp.

Recipe Tips

Flatbreads can be rolled out and frozen in a stack. You will need to put a bit of greaseproof paper between each of the breads so they don't stick. Frozen flatbreads can be cooked from frozen - they will take a few minutes more to cook on a hot frying pan.

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Flatbreads are cooked all over the world from Mexican tortillas to Indian chapatis. They are great served soft, filled with slaw or falafels, or baked until crisp and served with dips, soups or stews.

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An Introduction into the UK Flour Milling Industry

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An Introduction into the UK Flour Milling Industry

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An introduction to the UK flour milling industry

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Super-quick fresh pasta | Jamie Oliver recipes

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My easy homemade pasta recipe is great for emergencies. You don't need a pasta machine, just a rolling pin.

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A guide to growing potatoes for crisps at Fairfields Farm, Essex.

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Watch the video from the 2019 Food & Farming Day to see what it should be all about!

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Fancy making your own pizza? Use the Marriage's flour (you will receive in the Event Package, or source your own!) to make pizza bases. Then you can decorate  them with the tomatoes and basil that you have grown in the VegTrug planter (ideally)! Easy, healthy and home-grown!

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Mix together 350g flour, 2 ¾ tsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt in a small bowl, add 1 tbsp oil and 170ml water then stir until it forms a ball. If stiff, add more water, it should be soft but not sticky.

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Mix together 350g flour, 2 ¾ tsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt in a small bowl, add 1 tbsp oil and 170ml water then stir until it forms a ball. If stiff, add more water, it should be soft but not sticky.

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As you know, we hoped to be back to 'normal' for 2022, but with Covid-19 still lingering, this is the safest way for us to bring you all this fantastic information.

We are very much planning to be back to a live show day in June 2023, so please keep an eye out for the launch of this in autumn 2022.

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Twinkl - a strawberry story ordering activity

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Grow your own basil (will be a task in the Event Package!) or pop and buy some to make your own pesto sauce! You can add it to pasta, or flatbread, yum!

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This basil pesto recipe with parmesan and pine nuts is bursting with fresh herby flavour; it's great with pasta, sandwiches, salads and more.

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Watch this exciting video about a Nature Exploration Table that The Wilderness Foundation have setup.

If you are able, then head outside and collect some bits of nature for yourself, and make your own Nature Exploration Table. Have fun with it!

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Twinkl - The Story of Milk - sorting activity

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Twinkl - A Cheese Story - sorting activity

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Learn about the water footprint of your food from Anglian Water's information below. Use it to create your own low water footprint menu!

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Plant a Tree for the Queens Jubilee!

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Watch this presentation from Anglian Water about World Water Day and how we can help reduce our own Water Footprint.

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WWD presentation - We are UK Water for Essex F&F Day 21

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Find out about our Oceans and how we can help protect them.

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Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) has found that the more people learn about the ocean, the more they become passionate about protecting it. We have designed a number of educational activities that are inspired by our incredible project sites. Explore the links below to learn more about the weird and wonderful creatures you can find in the ocean, their habitats and why we must protect them!

The winners of the 2020 Ocean Award Local Hero category, Tavahiroa Elementary School in French Polynesia, are an amazing example of the impact that children can have:

You can become a Local Hero too! Here are some ideas to get you started:

Write to your MP/your PM/President about an issue you care deeply about. Check out our 'Dear Minister' pdf below for some ideas!

Keep an eye out for ocean-related petitions and sign them to show your support.

Get creative and write your own song, short story, rap or even poetry about how we have to protect the ocean.

Help raise funds for your favourite ocean cause by organising a sponsored walk, run or any other activity you enjoy!

BLUE has designed educational activities that draw from the An Ocean Adventure makerzine and our project sites. We have designed these materials for various age groups and cover topics such as ecology, maths, art, geography and science.

BLUE Apps:

BLUE has partnered with Planetari and the St Helena National Trust to create a marine conservation game, which you can download for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch: Download Secrets of St Helena

BLUE Digital Downloads:

Click here to download a maths worksheet, based around our native oyster restoration project!

Want to get creative? Create a piece of artwork that tells us why we need to protect our oceans or draw your favourite marine animal. Need some inspiration? Check out our Pinterest board here! We'd love to see you artwork - tag us in your posts on social media or send a photograph to sophie@bluemarinefoundation.com

Our partners at Six Senses Laamu and the Maldives Underwater Initiative have created a series of 'Junior Marine Biology' courses! Follow this link to take part. Look out for BLUE's Marine Protected Area mobile in Episode 2, part 6! These DIY mobiles were part of BLUE's An Ocean Adventure makerzine.

Learn about habitats and ecosystems. Click here to download a worksheet to find out how ecosystems are connected!

We will be updating this list with new content when it becomes available. Make sure you follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook where we will announce any updates!

If you have any questions or feedback, please email sophie@bluemarinefoundation or share your children's work with BLUE on social media. We'd love to hear from you!

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From Farm to Fork

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From Farm to Fork

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Oilseed Rape - what food does it actually make?

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Oilseed Rape - what food does it actually make?

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Farming is Magic

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Oilseed Rape - Making it Shine - Farming is Magic

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The NFU have created a fantastic interactive project that KS2 children can get involved in. It takes them through all the stages of setting up their own farm shop! The activities are split into year groups, so see the project overview documents below, and for the full details please click on the link above. Don't forget to share with us any of your results! Enjoy!

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Key Stage 1 & 2

Farming STEMterprise projects take children through each stage of setting up a farm shop business: considering seasonality when deciding which crop to grow, growing their own ingredients, considering nutrition when designing their recipes, using market research to test their ideas out with potential consumers, working within a budget when buying additional ingredients, learning knife skills when making their products, calculating expected profit, designing responsible packaging and much more.

Practical Science and Design & Technology lessons, closely tailored to each year group's programme of study, are incorporated throughout the projects and opportunities for applying Maths skills to engaging, real life problems are embedded at each stage. The projects have been designed to be easy to use and enable you to deliver key content from the national curriculum whilst embedding important messages about financial literacy and food provenance.

Farming STEMterprise has received Green Tick accreditation from the Association for Science Education and the projects are accredited by CREST Awards and the Children's University. The projects were finalists in both the BETT and ERA awards in 2020.

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Farming STEMterprise projects take children through each stage of setting up a farm shop business: considering seasonality when deciding which crop to grow, growing their own ingredients, considering nutrition when designing their recipes, using market research to test their ideas out with potential consumers, working within a budget when buying additional ingredients, learning knife skills when making their products, calculating expected profit, designing responsible packaging and much more.

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If you have any questions about the the content on this padlet, or how best to use it, please do contact me at essexschoolsday@gmail.com

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Farming is Magic

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In amongst the rows of tall tomato plants at Cornerways Nursery there are thousands of bumble bees hard at work.

Matt Ware loves to explain how all these bumble bees are essential in producing 180 million tomatoes a year.

He takes visitors between the rows of tomato plants to see where his insect workers live and what he does to make life - and work pollinating tomato flowers - as easy as possible for his bees.

Matt makes sure to make the connection between the bees, the flowers and delicious bright red tomato fruits.

He also points out that lots of farmers rely on creatures to help with their farming - whether that's earthworms in the soil, or dogs to round up the sheep.

To hear more tomato news then follow @Cornerways_UK

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How insect workers help - Farming is Magic

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In amongst the rows of tall tomato plants at Cornerways Nursery there are thousands of bumble bees hard at work. Matt Ware loves to explain how all these bumble bees are essential in producing 180 million tomatoes a year. He takes visitors between the rows of tomato plants to see where his insect workers live [...]

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Here is a full list of items you will receive in the Event Package that if your one of the lucky 60 schools, is being delivered directly to your school on Monday 25th April.

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I've received my Event Package - now what do I do with it all?

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This shows you exactly what you need to do with everything you received in your Event Package.

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The video above shows you exactly how to plant up your Poppy-Go planter from VegTrug with the plants & seeds that you have been given in the Event Package.

When Tagetes are mentioned in the above video (from 2021), this refers to the Pot Marigold for 2022.

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Essex Young Farmers Show - see you there??

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Essex Young Farmers Show - see you there??

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The Essex Young Farmers put on a FANTASTIC show each year (missed the last 2 thanks to Covid!) and 2022 is going to be a great one! The Essex Agricultural Society have got a stand there for the first time this year, and we would love to see many of you there!

The 3 finalists of our competition will be invited to join us for the final round of judging by 'Cheerful Charlie' from Amazon Prime's Clarkson's Farm.

Pop the date in your diary and we will see you there!!

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STEMterprise - YEAR 4 - project overview

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STEMterprise - YEAR 4 - project overview

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NFU - Farming STEMterprise - Year 4 project outline

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STEMterprise - YEAR 5 - project overview

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STEMterprise - YEAR 5 - project overview

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NFU - Farming STEMterprise - Year 5 project outline

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STEMterprise - YEAR 6 - project overview

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STEMterprise - YEAR 6 - project overview

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NFU - Farming STEMterprise - Year 6 project outline

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Growing tomatoes in a giant green house in Kent

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Growing tomatoes in a giant green house in Kent

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From Farm to Fork

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Learn how to sow simple bean seeds at school or at home.

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Blooming Well Week 3 - WILDLIFE AND THE WORLD:  Sowing Beans

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Trust Links - Growing veg from scraps - part 1

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Trust Links - Growing veg from scraps - part 1

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Learn how to grow vegetables from scraps easily at school or at home.

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Blooming Well Week 3 - GET CREATIVE: Grow Veg from scraps

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Trust Links - Growing veg from scraps - part 2

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Trust Links - Growing veg from scraps - part 2

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British Science Week is 11-20 March. The attached link takes you to lots of fun activities. If you turn to Page 25, then the NFU have their input into the resources.

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Writtle Sunflowers have made this video for you, showing you how they grow their sunflowers on their farm in Writtle.

Have you grown sunflowers in your school or garden at home before? Well now is your chance!! Each of the Event Packages have got a packet of Sunflower Seeds in kindly provided by Writtle Sunflowers. Why not have a competition at school to see who can grow the tallest sunflower!!

Don't forget to email us your photos! Send them to essexschoolsday@gmail.com and jo@metsonpartners.co.uk.

Or you can tag us both on social media! Essex Agricultural Society and Writtle Sunflowers!

Many thanks for Writtle Sunflowers (www.writtlesunflowers.weebly.com) and Kika Mitchell (www.kikamitchellphotography.co.uk) for this video.

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You would have received some sunflower seeds in your Event Package. The above instructions show you exactly what to do to plant and look after them!

Why not make this an inter-school competition?!

Don't forget to send us your photos!! Send them to writtlesunflowers@metsonpartners.co.uk and essexschoolsday@gmail.com. Or you can take us on social media.

There is a prize being offered for the tallest sunflower, so it will be worth it!!

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Didn't receive the Event Package this year?

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Didn't receive the Event Package this year?

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For those of you not lucky enough to get the full Event Package this year, we hope that the list above helps and encourages you to source a few of the items yourselves, and still give your pupils the opportunity to get stuck in! We really hope you do, and don't forget to send us any photos or videos as way of feedback!

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Writtle - Growing instructions - Tomatoes

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Writtle - Growing instructions - Marigold

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Climate Action - Schools' Advice Pack from Essex County Council

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Climate Action - Schools' Advice Pack from Essex County Council

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Introduce the importance of water efficiency, how it relates to the environment, and get pupils excited to join The Ripple Effect.

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Introduce the importance of water efficiency, how it relates to the environment, and get pupils excited to join The Ripple Effect.

Enjoy learning the Water Tracker Song with your year group, key stage or whole school and encourage everyone to take the Water Tracker Pledge. If you have a little more time, you could also meet the Wayster family while listening to the Water Tracker audio story, play some fun educational games, or try out the Water Worker quiz with your pupils!

Pick which activities to create an assembly 25-45 minutes long that will get your pupils excited about protecting our precious water supply.

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Want to get a free 2 hour workshop for your school?

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Want to get a free 2 hour workshop for your school?

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Essex & Suffolk Water are organising some school visits in the form of a 2 hour workshops on water efficiency.

They will be free for schools to sign up for, and will be available to schools in our area (Basilldon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Maldon, Rochford, Southend, and Thurrock).

For more information and to request a visit, please email Sarah Bowerman at sarah.bowerman@nwl.co.uk.