The Animals
All children across GWFEYC have a lot of contact with the animals. They experience a hands on approach to learning about them and witness lambing season, sheep shearing and collect eggs from the hens. We have several chickens we hatched from an incubator and two goats callled Shrek and Princess Fiona (already named when we got them!). We have two alpacas, called Cyril and Riley, they are all really friendly and the children love feeding them carrot sticks and stroking their soft necks.
In June 2014, we bought two donkeys called Freddy and Misty. They live in the paddock at the back of the nursery garden, the children enjoy brushing them and feeding them carrots and apples and love hearing their loud 'braying' sounds!
If the grass in the paddocks becomes too long, Farmer Brian moves some of his sheep into the paddocks and we have two pet sheep who always live there.
Farmer Brian created a path for the nursery children to walk down to visit the animals in their paddocks, or they can be accessed from Rangers garden.
A video of our nursery children interacting with our pet farm animals
Play videoWe won the Education and Learning Award from the Royal Forestry Society!
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