Willows Farm!

Yesterday we had the best time at our first big class trip! Reception and Nursery were lucky enough to go to Willows Farm, and had such a lovely day.

We got to Willows after a fun coach trip all together, and our first stop was to watch a cow milking show! A lovely brown cow called Cupcake was on a milking machine, and collected two large buckets full of fresh milk. It was amazing to see how much milk the cow could make, and how bright white the fresh milk was! We learnt all about the types of cows that lived at Willows and the many things that we can eat or drink that use the cow’s milk. 

After this we were lucky enough to watch a show! We watched Peter Rabbit’s friend, Lily Bobtail singing and dancing for us. It was so fun, and we could all stand up and join in with the singing and dancing! 

There was a large pretend cow at Willows, whose udders were able to be milked. We were all taught how to use our hands to milk a cow, and each had a turn – water came out of the udders! It was so fun and Reception loved doing this. 

We went on a really exciting tractor ride! Tristan the Tractor was a fun and bumpy ride. The whole class, mums and dads were able to fit on all together, it was lovely way to see the farm. We saw many animals grazing in their fields too! 

After lunch, we watched a sheep race! Lots of sheep ran around an assault course, and we could choose who we thought could win. Everyone was cheering for their favourite, and laughing lots at the tiny toy jockeys on the sheep. 

The afternoon was spent outside in the sunshine, meeting and feeding lots of the farm animals. We were able to feed large and small goats, sheep and cows some grass pellets. Reception were so brave, putting their hands out flat so all the animals could eat from their palms. The animals were so hungry, and so excited to see so many of us with lots of food. At the end there was two very gentle cows that were only three years old. They loved been patted and stroked so gently by Reception, they were standing by us for a long time getting lots of love. 

We had a fantastic day on our first ever trip, seeing and learning so many new things in the sunshine. Thank you very much to the SVPA for funding our fantastic trip today! We made such lovely memories which we will treasure!