The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Education team will provide first-hand experience of harvest time to more than 130,000 students as part of the UK’s biggest harvest festival, Harvest Live.
Students from almost 1,800 different schools will be taken behind the scenes by the NFU Education team at one of the UK’s biggest annual farming events.
Free virtual lessons aim to support teachers as primary school children learn about food production, seasonality and how farmers are using science and technology to tackle climate change.
These lessons, taught by the NFU Education team at the harvest festival, all link in with school curriculums through science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) requirements.
The two-day Harvest Live event takes place on Thursday and Friday, September 29-30, 2022.
NFU president, Minette Batters said: “It’s fantastic to see such a large number of schools and children with a keen appetite to learn more about where their food comes from, and connecting them with the countryside – our farmed working landscape.
“Being able to show in the classroom how innovative, diverse and exciting the agriculture industry is in such a practical way gives students an amazing insight, and could inspire them to think about a career in food and farming in the future.”
NFU student and young farmer ambassador, Hannah Buisman will explain to key stage one children what happens when crops are harvested, and they’ll get to join in making the world’s biggest combine harvester.
Carrots are on the menu for key stage two children, with a lesson that will take students through farmers’ use of climate change-fighting technology and science to grow, process and pack them.
The key stage two session will take place on Thursday, September 29; and the key stage one session will take place on Friday, September 30.
Techers and schools can find out more and sign up to take part in the event on the Harvest Live 2022 website.
