Students from across the School learn through Tinternwood Farm
It was a big Term 1 at Tinterwood Farm, we saw the arrival of our Merino sheep for the Victorian Schools Merino Wether Challenge. Selected young farmer’s students from our Years 8 and 10 cohorts are working with the sheep every lunchtime to get a ‘hands on’ experience, which will end with a friendly showing competition against other schools from around Victoria to determine which sheep are grand champions.
Our Year 7 students investigate whether feed really does play a vital role in increasing the weight of chickens. They looked after 5-day old commercial chickens over four weeks, weighing them every week to see whether different started commercial feeds influence growth.
Our Year 1 students have just finished learning how food and plastic can be reused, recycled and repurposed, while seeing the importance of soil in farming.
At the start of Term 2 our dairy calves arrived for our involvement in Cows Create Careers program, so there’s more exciting times ahead for Tinterwood Farm!
Dr Kate Richards
Secondary Science
Agriculture and Sustainable Futures Curriculum Co-ordinator
