The day began with bread making. Using a balancing scale, everyone helped to measure and add ingredients before taking turns to stir, knead, and shape the dough into small buns. These were baked for us to collect at the end of the day - a tasty souvenir to take home.

Next came an egg-citing egg hunt around the chicken coops. Children peered into hutches, spotting real eggs laid by hens, and soon enough, the highlight of the storybook adventure appeared: the Little Red Hen herself, strutting proudly with her gleaming ginger-red feathers.

Whilst walking through the orchard and walled kitchen garden, we spotted pumpkins, raspberries, rhubarb, and many other plants. A special surprise was discovering an old privy - something Form 2 had been learning about in their Great Fire of London topic.

Animal encounters were a favourite part of the day. The pygmy goats delighted everyone as they eagerly nibbled feed from our hands. Some of us were lucky enough to stroke some of the chickens, too.

Later, we each planted a grain of wheat to take back to school and began to understand the story of bread from seed to bun. Grinding wheat into flour with traditional stone slabs gave us all an appreciation of how much effort it takes - lots of muscles required!

The day ended on a high note with a lively puppet show performance of ‘The Little Red Hen’ and a chance to run, climb, and play in the adventure playground.

You can view more photos from our time at Cogges Manor Farm here.