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 Let’s Talk Farming is the education brand for the NFU aimed to give children an overview of farming in the UK.
Two booklets have been developed to appeal directly to children.
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 Do you want lots of teaching ideas?
Do your children understand food labels?
Do your children make choices about food?
The Farm Behind the Food has been created by teachers to provide 50 classroom activities to help you unpack these issues!
Go to The Farm Behind the Food website.
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The FACE Galleries are an ever expanding collection of food and farming images and videos available for download and use.
Go to the the Galleries
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How do I organise a visit to a farm? What do I need to consider? Who can help?
Information for organising and arranging farm visits. |
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 Thanks to funding from the Central Region Farmers' Trust, the Livestock Identity Chart has been made available to FACE. Originally, it was produced by the Royal County of Berkshire Show and was so popular it is now available for all to enjoy!
Download the Livestock Identity Chart.
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 This FREE CD, produced by FACE in partnership with Waitrose and DairyCrest, introduces primary aged children to what goes on at the dairy farm where milk is produced and the land is cared for.
Find out more and order your copy today.
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Farm Visit and Farmer's Year Posters |
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 Two downloadable posters that make the case for visiting farms and a highly engaging visual explanation of the farmer's year in the UK.
Download now or Order your free copy. |
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 The FACE website holds a resource bank of Fact Sheets on a wide range of topics.
Click here for the Fact Sheets. |
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 The Growing Schools website holds useful information for schools and organisations wishing to participate in Outdoors Education.
The website also holds information on forthcoming Events, Places to Visit and Training in your region.
www.growingschools.org.uk |
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 A wide variety of tractor-themed puzzles in KS1 and KS2 booklets are now available to download!
Download the Tractor Puzzles for KS1
Download the Tractor Puzzles for KS2
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Free Educational Resources from HGCA |
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HGCA has an extensive range of FREE educational resources exploring the grain chain from field to plate.
Packed full of fun games and activities, the resources have been specially developed for children from primary through to secondary school (Key Stage 1 to 4). All resources are linked to the national curriculum.
Visit www.grainchain.com to order these resources.
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This is Dairy Farming Website |
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 Thisisdairyfarming.com is DairyCo’s consumer website, launched in 2010 to provide interested consumers and members of the press with facts about British dairy farming.
Watch a series of short films to learn about dairy farming in a few minutes. Features include a day in the life of a vet, a calf is born and robotic milking. http://thisisdairyfarming.com/at-the-moovies.aspx
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An increasing body of research supports the value of learning about food, farming and the countryside. Here are a number of key papers if you want to delve deeper.
Click here for the Research. |
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 Follow Toby on his latest trip to the farm. Who is the strangely dressed Mr Bumble and what is all that buzzing that Toby can hear? And why does the answer involve eating a fantastic natural product?
Find out more and order your copies. |
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 These packs, which were commissioned by the NFU from FACE, are the most significant development in teaching resources on farming for many years.
Visit the Why Farming Matters Resources |
 You can also find many of our resources on the
TES Teaching Resources website. |
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 A collection of Healthy Eating recipes and Competition Winning recipe ideas.
Download the Recipes
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 Food for Thought is a FREE resource pack that introduces young people to the complex web of relationships and the variety of business decisions that combine to create a new food product.
Find out more and order your copy today.
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 Love it Eat it offers a pair of publications filled with interesting facts about the food we grow here in Britain.
The books are designed to be easy to read, attractive, fun, and a useful, memorable, informative reference for readers from age 6 to 96 !
Find out more and order your copies today.
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 Valuing Villages’ is a practical resource produced by Farming & Countryside Education. It uses as its starting point the former QCA Citizenship Schemes of Work ‘Choices’ and ‘Local democracy for young citizens.’ It has relevance for teaching pupils at Key Stages 2 and 3. The pack consists of teacher notes and a bank of photocopiable activities.
Download the resources. |
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 This children's turkey hat was created by FACE REC Bobbie Harvey.
Download, Print off, Colour in, Cut Out and Practise making turkey noises!
Download the Turkey Hat
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3D Model Farm Animals and Fruit |
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 The FACE 3D Farm Animals, Tractor and Fruit created by FACE REC Bobbie Harvey are now available to download.
Download, Print off, Colour in, Cut Out and Enjoy!
Download the 3D Farm Animals, Tractor and Fruit.
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A regular quarterly feature on the FACE website aiming to summarise current countryside issues briefly and impartially.
Kindly produced by Alan Spedding.
Go to Alan's Updates
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Farming life: A family tradition |
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BBC News have written an informative article documenting the views of a family of farmers.
"For many farmers, working the land is in the blood; a job passed down the generations. But with farming in Britain at a crossroads, families are increasingly facing tough choices about their future. "
Click here for the full article.
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 Developed with input from teachers, this useful learning resource offers visual, up-to-date materials which cover the key topics of arable farming, milling, cooking and nutrition.
www.grainchain.com
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