Students from Isle of Wight secondary school Medina College appeared on the BBC show Countryfile over the weekend.
In the episode, presenter Adam Henson visits the school and talks to students about the new iGSCE in agriculture.
The course was started when a passionate teacher went to executive head Matthew Parr-Burnam and from then on, the idea was set.
Henson also speaks to science teacher Dr Clarkson about how the course can become useful throughout the general curriculum.
As part of the iGCSE course, the Fairlee Road school has developed an area of land on-site, near the Geography block, which includes a large greenhouse so that crops can be grown all year as well as a vegetable bed, fruit bushes and an orchard.
The episode is available to watch on BBC iPlayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hrww/countryfile-breaking-into-farming.
This is a surprise, as the I.W college has few blacks or disabled so amazed the BBC would bother to film here.
Surely won’t appease the tick sheet brigade unless they have managed to source some of these students.
Thought it was about fruit and veg, and there’s plenty of diversity there.
Yes Countryfile used to be a really interesting programme about farming and wildlife, but became more and more a typical BBC propaganda exercise, which is fine IF people are picked on merit not because of colour, race and disability.
Not just Countryfile though all currently made progs can be identified by blacks in high power positions, and never the bad guys.
Even British history programmes now, ‘have’ to have a reference to immigration, and presenters search through a thousand bones to find a dna black to then ‘create’ a mixed street scene.
It appeases the gullible though.
We would they be filming here there is just violence
Well done to all involved. We’re very fortunate to have a college that deals with agriculture.
It was brilliant to see on tv, and an excellent advert for those interested in farming and agriculture.
We used to have Branstone farm till they sold it for housing
I lost interest in this bloke when I started to notice that despite his bleating about no money, he always had a new number plate on his vehicles. A lot of farmers can’t afford an old vehicle let alone continually upgrade like this character does. Lack of money? Mon derriere.
perhaps if they’re learning to grow stuff,.. they could grow something to plant in that muddy patch behind Adam in the photo, & make the place look a bit nicer.
IIRC there use to be some nice bushes there ??
Great, isn’t it.
And article looking at something good happening on the Isle of Wight and Island Echo’ usual geriatric bigoted bleaters are out in force.
I would have said the best thing you old gits could do for Island agriculture is drop dead so that you can be dug into the ground as compost, but I would worry that the poison in your diseased minds will have filtered into the rest of your bodies.