The School Farms Network Education Alliance (SFNEA) conference 2017 took place at the Royal Agricultural University on 30 June to 1 July, hosted by the Royal Agricultural University at its Cirencester campus.
The conference promoted interest in school farming (and other types of land-based education) through keynote presentations, breakout sessions and practitioner-focused sharing and practical workshops, addressing the themes of:
- School Farms as sites for learning
- Agriculture, technology and enterprise
- Building student achievement, access and progression
- Building land-based careers and education pathways to university
Presentations given at the conference can be downloaded below:
- Artificial incubation in the classroom
- Bees on the school farm
- Chickens in the playground
- Every child matters - Let's celebrate what school farms offer
- Getting started and funding your project
- Good Food Champions teacher training initiatives
- How do shcools connect school farms and the curriculum?
- Include pigs on your school farm
- Intro to Agri Landbased Careers
- Leigh Morris - closing keynote
- Reduce the red tape
- School farms as sites for learning
- School orchards
- School@Farm
- Season constraints or opporunities - teaching and learning field ecology throughout the academic year
- The next steps - engaging young people with learning difficulties in agriculture
- Transforming school food
