The Arding-lay Project.

Last year a new CAS project was set up with Ardingly embarking on the Arding-lay project. A chicken run was built by the student s and in time the run was filled with egg laying hens. The girls in Woodard are heavily involved in the  care of these hens and Fiona Jones offers the report below.

The Arding-lay team: Leontine, Sofia, Anca, Claire, Charlie, Fiona, Lucy, Gemma, Ellie and Maddie

Some of the sixth form students have been caring and looking after chickens in a new project that we call Arding-lay

This involves:

 Providing water

Feeding the hens

Collecting the eggs and taking them to the staff common room to be sold

Checking for foxes

Pooper-scooper-ing

Cleaning

Letting the chickens out of their house in the morning and returning them in the evening

Playing with the chickens

Playing with and caring for the chickens – ‘chicken love’

Feeding the chickens in their run and checking that they have not been pecking each other.

Returning the Chickens to their coop in the evening so that they stay warm in the winter and free from foxes that may manage to get in through the meshing.

One of our six healthy, egg laying hens

And now to hens learning from the Ardingly learner profile:

 Inquirer:      

 Learning from the Ardingly Learner Profile this chicken becomes inquisitive when a strange black object with buttons enters the enclose

Balanced:

This chicken perches on a slim ledge as the hutch is opened for cleaning using her balance she appears steady