How Now…Brownes Cow!

It’s incredibly important for children to understand where their food comes from and Brownes Dairy is WA’s oldest and largest dairy that offer incursions to schools so that students can learn about this farm to plate process.

Students from Kindy to Year 2 were fortunate enough to be invited to participate in the Brownes Dairy incursion, which took place on Tuesday 9 November and Friday 26 November.

Farmer Jo started the incursion by taking students on a journey which showed not only about the nutritional benefits of milk, but how milk makes its way from our dairy farms in the South West WA to their fridges at home. They also sampled a variety of yogurt and were given their own strawberry or vanilla yogurt pouches to enjoy.

Students were then treated to a special visit from Farmer Damian and Belinda the cow, well…unfortunately Belinda could not make the incursion on Tuesday 9 November as she had a tummy bug, but we were lucky enough for Amelie the cow visit. Amelie was heavily pregnant and students were delighted to share a cuddle with her and her big belly.

Thanks to the generosity of Brownes Dairy, students across the school were able to enjoy pouches of yogurt at Breakfast Club…the yogurt was an extremely popular addition to the Breakfast Club menu and it was noted by parents who attended with their children that ‘their children never eat yogurt at home!’. Thank you Brownes for this amazing experience.

Mrs Phillips

Science Teacher