NFU Education

21/01/2026

Science Farm LIVE is back for 2026!

In keeping with this year’s British Science Week theme ‘Curiosity: what’s your question?’ we are bringing you ‘The BIG Farming QUESTion’ -an action-packed week of curriculum aligned live lessons, a huge line up of inspirational role models and a quest to answer all your food and farming questions!

Join us to bring your to life, explore key STEM topics in a real-life context and introduce your pupils to a range of career opportunities across the sector.

Head to www.nfueducationlive.com to find out more and sign up!

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30/12/2025

🌟 2025 WRAPPED! 🌟

What a year it’s been! Let’s have a look back at some highlights!

🌟 In collaboration with the British Veterinary Ethnicity & Diversity Society, we launched the AgriFuture programme, bringing together education, agri-food and veterinary voices to shape a more inclusive and diverse future for our sector through:

✨ An Industry Challenge Day in January and our first AgriFuture Forum in September- creating space to listen, learn and collaborate across the industry.

✨ The groundbreaking AgriFuture Scholarship, welcoming 22 amazing young people as our inaugural cohort. They kicked off their journey as scholars with a week-long residential in August and will reunite in early 2026.

✨ The AgriFuture Pledge, co-written by Challenge Day attendees- a shared commitment to the next generation and a roadmap for progress across the sector.

🌟 We smashed our own records, reaching over half a million pupils through this year’s live lessons: and .

🌟 Cathy, with the help of our incredible ambassadors, broke even more records- growing the annual reach of the programme to over 31,000 pupils.

We’ve got even more exciting plans lined up for 2026, so watch this space!

Happy New Year everyone! 🎉

04/12/2025

Thank you to our amazing line up of speakers and everyone who joined us on our Festive Farming Quests! If you missed them, here’s a little recap of the action but you can catch up on the full lessons anytime at www.nfueducationlive.com

08/10/2025

After a record- breaking year of live lessons, we are excited to bring you something new…

Introducing Festive Farming Quest: free, festive and curriculum-aligned live lessons to start your festive period with a bang!

Join us on the 2nd December 2025 to bring your festive countdown to life, explore key STEM topics in a real-life context and introduce your pupils to another inspiring line up of careers across the food and farming industry!

In these interactive live lessons, we will take pupils behind the scenes of real British farms and into professional settings to use the fascinating world of farming and food production to deliver key STEM curriculum objectives.

Both lessons include downloadable curriculum-linked teaching resources to use before, during and after the live lessons and there will be lots of opportunities for children to interact with our expert speakers.

Sign up today to book your learners’ places!

22/12/2024

Happy end of term! Let’s have a look back at some of our stats since September…

🎄 Over 99,000 pupils from 1137 schools attended our live lessons with

🎄Over 8045 students from 62 schools took part in a assembly and the programme’s primary school reach increased by 400% compared to Autumn 2023.

🎄42 new inspiring role models trained to be Farmers for Schools ambassadors.

🎄65 representatives from across the food, farming and education have already signed up to attend our groundbreaking Challenge Day in January where we will be discussing the challenge of improving the diversity of our sector and making a plan and commitment for change.

Thank you to everyone we’ve worked with this term to make these numbers happen!

06/11/2024

NFU MEMBERS! We will be submitting a proposal to the Department for Education’s review of the current curriculum and assessment system and in order to represent the views of as many of our members as possible, we are asking you to share your opinions so they can be included in the response.

Find out more about the review and complete our 3 minute survey here: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/education-curriculum-review/

30/09/2024

30/08/2024

Do you want to help us start a conversation with tomorrow’s consumers and reconnect young people with the food they eat and buy?
We are looking for ambassadors to join our next round of training!

Find out more and sign up here: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/nfu-farmers-for-schools-programme/

19/07/2024

Happy last day of the academic year! Let’s have a look back at some of our numbers from the 2023- 2024 school year!

🌟 Over 404,000 pupils attended our live lessons: Harvest Thali, Science Farm LIVE and The Great Welsh Ice cream Adventure.

🌟 Over 17,400 students from 166 schools took part in a assembly. That’s a 148% increase in reach since last academic year!

🌟 80 new inspiring role models trained to be Farmers for Schools ambassadors.

🌟 Almost one third of Welsh Medium schools joined our bilingual live lesson: The Great Welsh Ice cream Adventure!

Plans for new and exciting projects are already underway so have a lovely summer and watch this space!

18/06/2024

Teachers of Wales! Are you ready for The Great Welsh Ice cream Adventure tomorrow?! 🍨🍨🍨

If you’re not signed up yet, it’s not too late to join us and for a brand-new, free, curriculum-aligned and interactive live lesson!

Head to www.nfueducationlive.com to register and enrol! 🍨🍨🍨

11/04/2024

Our Dirt & Discovery tour is back for 2024! We’re looking for schools to join us and experience the ultimate STEM ‘field’ trip. There is a £500 bursary for all schools attending to assist with travel and staffing costs. Tag a school that would benefit!

27/03/2024

Another example of some of lovely feedback we’ve received about our lessons! 🐄💩🐑🚜🪲🩺

Catch up on the lessons and download the additional teaching resources at www.nfueducationlive.com