Bake bread in the Occombe Bakery and learn about the history of bread. Small groups of students can learn how to bake bread with the Occombe Bakers in our organic bakery which supplies the Farm Shop and Café with fresh bread every day. You will learn about ingredients, how to mix dough, how to kneed dough, how to shape different types of rolls and loaves, proving and baking in our large bread oven. Children will get to take their bread home at the end of the day. We also have a traditional clay oven at the farm. If your group is larger than 15 we will run two or more activities and rotate the groups as the baker can only accommodate around 12-15 children at a time. This is a very popular activity with students.
Timing: mornings only, 1 hour Age Range: Year 3 up to adult Relevant Subjects: Science, Food Technology, Literacy & Numeracy, Geography, PSHE, Business Studies
Food Miles/Fairtrade
Small groups visit the Farm Shop and investigate what products are on sale, where they come from and whether they are organic and fair-trade or not. Then use the internet to calculate the food miles involved and plot this on a world map.
Learn about the problem of food packaging and recycling through craft activity. Use food packaging to make farm animals. Children are encouraged to bring food packaging from home.
Timing: 1 hour Age Range: Primary Relevant Subjects: Geography, Literacy.
Relevant Topics from the QCA schemes of work
Primary Science:
Unit 5A: Keeping healthy
Secondary Science:
Unit 8A: Food and digestion
Secondary Geography:
Unit 9: Shopping - past, present and future
Unit 14: Can the earth cope? Ecosystems, population and resources
Primary Citizenship:
Unit 03: Animals and us
KS3 Citizenship:
Unit 21: People and the environment
KS4 Citizenship:
Unit 12: Global issues, local action
