Agriculture

7 Technology Agriculture work

During their 1st technology rotation, Miss White's year 7 Tech classes learnt about the different types of digestive systems found in farm animals.

In this process students created representations of different digestive systems using a variety of materials with things such as balloons representing things such as stomachs and pipe cleaners intestines. Students had a great time working in groups and individually to create these different diagrams of digestive systems.

Year 8 Agriculture Carrot Competition 

As part of their learning on competition vegetables in Agriculture this semester, Miss White's year 8 class took part in a class competition.

Students were presented with 4 main categories

"Heaviest individual carrot"

"Longest individual carrot"

"Heaviest bunch of carrots"

"Wonkiest carrot"

and 1 student requested bonus one of "Smallest carrot"

Students had the choice to work in a group or individually to plant and manage their carrots to present 6 carrots for weigh in. Students worked together to cut lengths of PVC pipe to plant their carrots in to encourage the carrots to grow long and mostly straight and were in charge of managing their plants over the last term and a bit with things such as thinning out and watering.

Today was weigh in day! Year 8 were eager to get in and harvest their carrots. All up year 8 produced 126 carrots with results as follows;

"Heaviest individual carrot" to Caleb Davies & Asher Ridgewell with a carrot weighing in at 66.5 grams

"Longest individual carrot" a tie between Annie Spencer and Leo Gaw, Zander Vines and Luke Gardiner with carrots measuring 30cm

"Wonkiest Carrot" was voted by the class to the 2 legged carrot grown by Gloria Wyatt-Kerbrat and Peyton Sutton

"Heaviest bunch of carrots" also to Caleb Davies and Asher Ridgewell with 3 carrots totalling 151 grams

"Smallest Carrot" Leila Doyle and Ava Follington with a carrot of 2cm

Year 8 are now enjoying the spoils of their hard work