I've done all sorts today, starting at the crack of dawn
with dairy milking, which was amazing. It was interesting to see how it all works.
I think maybe I had a vision of stools and pulling utters but it was
completely different
to what I expected. I've never been in that environment before. I met a chap called Jack
in his first day but it's fascinating to see how it all worked. Great to see the cows themselves.
The staff were fantastic. I thought the staff were brilliant with Jack
and his colleagues. It's amazing
that it's actually
a working dairy farm and they said the
milk gets taken to
somewhere in London. I think that must help the students a lot. They see
what they are doing actually making a difference
in real life. I saw the little calves,
got to hold one, and hang out with the students.
They were telling me all about what they did. I don't really know what I expected. We went to see the
cows
There were little ones there that I thought were probably a few weeks old,
but I think some of them were a day old, hours old even. I was able to go in with them.
I managed to have a go and got the hay out
and sprinkled around the different pens. Again, a massive learning experience and
the student I worked with was from a farming background and she
absolutely loved what she did and it was just great to be there with her
We went to the shoot which is another thing I've never done in my life.
I had no idea how it worked. I had heard
of beaters before but I assumed they
just
stand by a tree and wave flags around but there is obviously a lot more to it than that,
right from rearing the birds here and
the whole
gonna operation of the beat itself, it's
just another
another thing you wouldn't really expect
to study at a college
but another fantastic thing
and another string for their bows. The
guys I spoke to up there,
they've been shooting all their lives and it seems like they'll probably continue
and thus the knowledge they gain here is just invaluable. I hadn't been here before.
I expected it to be big but not this big. There's
a lot here and all looks amazing,
it all looks brand new, up to scratch,
everything is just amazing and it just
every corner you go around, there's something brilliant in front of you. I can see
why
the students want to come here, the facilities are amazing. Every student I spoke to today
seemed like they love being here. They
absolutely love being here.
I mean they all seem to get on with each other, there's a
a big family atmosphere and it seems
like a great place to learn.
