Hundreds of children at Peterborough primary school learn about where their breakfast comes from

Hundreds of Peterborough school children were introduced this week to where their breakfast comes.

The event, called Breakfast Week, saw 200 children from Folksworth Primary School to engage teach them how that breakfast is grown – whether it’s sausages, toast or cereal – but also about making healthy choices.

Joining the children for the first time was award winning food writer, Jenny Jefferies.

Jenny, author of the For the Love of the Land and For the Love of the Sea books, said: “It was a real privilege to come along to the Kids Country Breakfast Week today.

"It’s such a fantastic and inspiring initiative and to see first-hand how school children are experiencing food provenance in an all-inclusive, enjoyable and informative way is both heartening and wonderful. This is what it’s all about.”

Children rotated around four activities including – pancake making, pig zone (learning all about pig farming and tasting the difference between free range rare breed pork sausages and typical premium supermarket ones), tractor zone with farmer James from Park Farm Thorney, and the Metre Square with farmer Luke, where children learn exactly what can be grown in a metre square of farmland and the inputs required to do so.

Kids Country, the education initiative managed by the East of England Agricultural Society, delivered the event to key stage 1 and 2 children.

Folksworth C of E Primary school headteacher, Michelle Norbury, said: “We’ve worked with Kids Country many times over the years and know how exciting it is for the children to have this kind of hands-on learning experience brought to them in school.

"It is so important to get children excited about locally produced food and how it is grown – we are surrounded by farmland at our village school so for children to understand what that land produces, with activities like Farmer Luke’s ‘Metre Square’ is really engaging for our students.”

The Kids Country team also took their Breakfast Week event to Fourfields Community Primary School, Yaxley, and Clough and Risegate Community Primary School, Spalding in the same week.