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Emanuel School - 21st October 2007 |
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On Sunday 21 October, Emanuel School's Animal Club organised an excursion to Clarendon Farm, just outside of Windsor. Clarendon Farm is a free-range egg farm with approximately 10,000 chickens of the Isa Brown layer variety.
Discovering how free range eggs are produced by happy chickens
We walked to the paddocks where the chickens live, and were welcomed by a concert of barks from the flock guardian dogs that protect the poultry from foxes. The chickens can roam freely within the paddocks and, during our visit, were resting comfortably in the shade of the laying house. The children inspected the nesting boxes and collected about 300 eggs from their raid. We then walked to the packing shed where we saw how the eggs were sorted into the different weight groups and the children helped load the eggs onto the conveyor belt which fed the eggs to the sorting machine.
Eggs that have rough shells are set aside as their shells can be thin in places and so are not sold to the general public. The eggs were then packed into cartons, ready for sale. The children (and parents!) were delighted with this visit and took home much more than a carton of free-range eggs.
They have seen first-hand how chickens can and should live in relative comfort to provide us with eggs and are now even more committed to using free-range products. |
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Donvale Primary School - 23rd October 2007 |
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Animal Club finally finished making the 300 pig noses for the whole school! It took us a very long time!
On Monday morning at assembly we performed a fabulous song about pigs and had a visit from a very famous pig. Wilbur, the pig who walked down the red carpet with Dakota Fanning at the world premiere of Charlotte’s Web, appeared at assembly with Pam Ahern from Edgars Mission.
Pam Ahern and Wilbur Pig from Edgar's Mission deliver messages
of compassion and respect for all creatures
While Wilbur ate his way through every biscuit in the teacher’s staffroom, Pam talked to the whole school about the values of kindness and fairness. Pam explained that we all have a role to play in society, “we all can make a difference by the choices we make in our life. I am not going to tell you what to do or not do, all I ask is that you think. Think of how what you do in your life affects others and ask yourself is that fair?”
Pam’s talk was inspirational and many parents, teachers and students commented on how much they enjoyed meeting Wilbur and learning more about farm animals and how to respect them more.
Wilbur’s visit was certainly worth the wait and if it made just one Donvale person stop and think then Animal Club is happy!` |
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Yuluma Primary School - 20th September 2007 |
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The members of our Animal Club have been working on various projects involving Free Range Verus Intensive Pig Farming. These 3 girls in the photographs, Grayson, Lauren and Taea, have made a model which shows a sow with her babies squeezed uncomfortably into a stall. If you could see their faces you would see they look very sad, especially Mum pig. The free pigs are eating grass and living in lots of space, and if you could see their faces, they are all very happy.
Our factory farmed vs free range pig model |
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Emanuel School - 10th September 2007 |
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At our Animal Club meeting this week we spoke about free range vs cage eggs and watched the documentary "Farm Animals and Us". It led to some interesting points of view being raised by our Club members. We also carried out an activity, pretending we were caged chickens with an A4 space of ground to live on for the rest of our lives. That certainly made an impression. We think we will continue the discussion next week with more contributions and ideas from the Animal Club members as a follow on. |
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Clifton Hills Primary School - 7th September 2007 |
Animal Club members watch Babe and learn how wonderful pigs are Hi there all you animal club fans. We are from Clifton Hills Primary School Animal Club and we are here to tell you about our latest movie afternoon. It was held on last Friday the 7th of September.
This time we went to the music room and watched the movie on the school’s new big screen TV. It was really Kool! We had afternoon tea before we watched the movie. We had biscuits and a fruit box. Then during the movie Mrs. Ritchie cut up oranges, mandarins and apples for us. She also cooked some mini quiches and made fresh popped popcorn.
Also, before the movie began we all put our donation items for the Darling Range Wildlife Shelter and the Animal Protection Society in the green wheelie bins and we filled them both up! Wow! What a great effort Clifton Hills Primary School Animal Club! The movie was really good and we all liked it a lot. After the movie we had to write about our favourite part of the movie before we went home. |
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