Thursday 22^th June 2017

Look East

Wow! What am amazing day we have had! Siobhan called us a few days ago to say that our local, TV news station ‘Look East’, would be coming to film our garden and interview us about our business. We were going to be on the local 6:30pm news!!

What a busy day it turned out to be. We learned lots about news reports and how they were filmed. All we see on the TV is a few minutes of reporting. In reality it took over an hour to produce a 5 minute TV slot! Lots of takes and retakes for the presenter and camera man.

We met the look East news reporter Kim Riley who interviewed a lot of the pupils about their experiences in setting up their ‘Food for Thought’ business. There was only one cameraman…but he had to carry around some heavy looking equipment for most of the afternoon...including a quick dash inside with it all as a storm broke above us!

Before the rain came we managed a bumper harvest. Siobhan was able to take 2.7kg of potatoes, 2.7kg of rainbow chard, 2.5kg of rhubarb and 2kg of perpetual onions to 'The Plough' in Wangford where the film crew would follow its preparation to the restaurant plate!

Next week we will calculate our proceeds so far by learning how to use a spreadsheet and begin to think about invoicing Adnams for our sold items of fruit and vegetables so far!



Preparing our harvest for the big day!

Preparing our latest harvest for 'The plough' at Wangford.

Filming the tomatoes with Kim Riley in the poly-tunnel!

 

It takes A LOT of 'takes' to make a news report!



 

Kim Riley interviewing Siobhan and the pupils about their business.

 



Filming the 'crop weighing' process. A great focus for our maths!



 

Weighing the onion crop in the classroom.

 





Our latest crops all ready to deliver to 'The Plough'.

 

Kim Riley asked us lots of questions. We let him know how proud we all our of our hard work to build our garden and grow our business: 'Vegetables R us'!