Meaty Matters Our School

Today in Our School, all is not as it should be.

-Oh, its so scary!

-Argh!

Something is lurking in the science department...

It's already dead, I didn't kill it.

..something Year 7 have never seen before.

If it comes back to life, I'm scarred for life.

Will they make it through?

Find out in Our School.

It's alive! It's alive!

BELL RINGS

Meet our new Year 7.

-Sick bucket!

-It's the most important school year of their life so far.

Haircut, sir?

They're all starting here together.

That level of noise is absolutely disgusting.

-Argh!

-SHRIEKING

Yes!

This has seen better days.

You stink, sir.

CBBC have filled the entire place with cameras,

so you'll get to watch Year 7 every step of the way.

-CLASS:

-Oh!

Stop waving at me.

-Yeah!

-Hello, I'm Mr Jones.

I'm the maths teacher at Our School and every time that you're here,

I'm going to be here too.

Right now, I'm late for a lesson. Excuse me.

Come on in!

-# Our School. #

-Boom, mic drop!

Year 7 students are all unique.

There's no two the same.

But there is one thing they all have in common.

Hello.

We've got three dogs.

This is Xena, she's four and she gives paw.

-From the cute...

-I live with my dog, Tilly.

-She's only small.

-..to the exotic and tropical...

This one, the blue one, it's Dory.

My favourite animal is a snake.

-Pretty cool, isn't it?

-Yes.

There's no denying our Year 7s love animals.

-High five!

-She's cute.

But Mr Shore has got news of a science lesson which might prove a

challenge for the animal lovers.

So, I'm going to talk to you about something, OK?

Next lesson, we're going to do a different type of lesson, OK?

Yeah, what do you mean? What do you mean?

I'm going to get to that, OK?

So, sometimes in science,

in order to find out how the world works and things, OK,

we have do particular experiments which some people don't like.

Next lesson, I'm going to be dissecting...

-What does that mean?

-Eurgh!

-Er... Shhh!

-Dissecting means to cut up.

-Ooh!

Maybe pull little bits apart. But I'm going to be...

Shhh. I'm going to be dissecting a rat.

CLASS SCREAM

-Like, this big.

-Sir.

It's already dead, I didn't kill it. OK?

I like animals, I didn't kill it.

So, science dissection is a pretty grown-up thing to do.

But I really feel that this class is going to be able to handle that.

Now, I can tell by the faces of some people in the way you are reacting,

-some people are like, "That's so cool."

-PUPILS:

-Yeah!

Right? But there's also some people going, "Hmm."

It's going to be disgusting seeing the lungs and skeleton

and the heart and the brains.

Abdul, you're pulling a funny face.

How are feeling about me cutting up a rat?

Bleurgh!

That's it. I feel OK with it.

I love animals and I don't like to see them killed.

And it's not just the dissection that's got Abdul thinking.

I'm trying to decide whether I'm a carnivore or a vegetarian.

But right now, I'm in the middle.

So, I fancy a sandwich.

Back home with his big sister, Aman, Abdul fancies a snack.

Well, there aren't a lot of ingredients here,

so I'll just go with the only one that we have.

Mayonnaise. Food plays about one of the most important parts of my life.

I eat more than anything I do.

Nah! Nah! Nah, nah, nah! My food! My food!

My food, my everything!

OK, I'm going to pick...

..bread, check it!

I have breakfast, then I have a little snack,

then I have another little snack.

Then it's lunch. Then I have a big lunch.

Then I have another snack and then another snack. Then dinner.

Just mayonnaise.

Like, nothing in between?

Like, no fillings or anything, just mayonnaise?

-Plain mayonnaise on bread?

-Mayonnaise on TWO breads!

Me and my entire family are, like, carnivores.

Meat eaters. And they say that I should be like them.

Why on earth do you want to be a vegetarian

when our complete family are meat eaters?

I don't know.

I guess sometimes I'm not really into eating animals and stuff.

A mayo sandwich might not be the healthiest option,

but it does count as vegetarian.

Mmm! Mmm!

And at his dad's shop, there's lots of food perfect for a vegetarian.

Or maybe not.

My dad is a butcher and I think it would be weird for him

that his own son would be the opposite of his work.

-Dad, what are you doing?

-I'm cutting the meat.

-Oh!

-What is it?

Yeah, it's just sheep.

Shoulder, neck, chops and the, you know, brisket.

-Yum.

-ABDUL RETCHES

Seriously? It's not that bad.

Talk about slice and dice!

I think this is helping the vegetarian side of me quite a lot.

-No, meat is good for health.

-Yeah.

Abdul's got some choices to make,

but what do the rest of Year 7 think?

I'd never become a vegetarian because I don't like veg.

So, I'd just fail!

Literally, the only thing I eat is pasta, so

basically I am a vegetarian.

-Chicken's so nice...

-Chicken Kievs!

Chicken and chips and doner kebab.

I'm wanting a rice, we get chicken and rice.

Lamb chops!

-Bacon.

-Oh, I hate bacon.

-Bacon.

Ten piece chicken and chips. After a bit, you get bored of it.

The only meat I eat is chicken. I don't eat it often.

-That's not vegetarian.

-Yeah, but I eat it, like, every two months.

You're still eating it, though.

I don't eat chicken a lot, so basically, I'm a vegetarian.

Right, someone tell me what we did yesterday.

We're doing prime numbers...

..and factors. What's a prime number?

-Morgan?

-You can only divide by itself and one.

Yes, perfect.

A prime number is a number that has only two factors.

Sheets at the back, carry on from where you left off,

apart from Morgan. Morgan!

As a maths teacher, it's really

important for me to challenge Year 7.

And I think Morgan can handle something even more complicated.

What's the highest common factor in both of those?

Do it. How do you do it?

Four...12...

I think that maths is one of my favourite subjects

because mum's an accountant, so, she's always, like,

giving me sums and things like that and helping me.

-What's that?

-The highest common factor.

Are you telling me the biggest number that goes into 16 and 24

-is...

-Eight.

-Eight. It is eight.

-Is it?

-It is eight.

-I worked out the formula.

Right, take a whiteboard, go and teach those two how to do it.

I'm in big school now, I need to get my head down,

just put that extra mile in.

So, what is the smallest prime factor?

She's brilliant at maths.

And look, she's even got a Blue Peter badge!

There's not many kids can say, "Oh, yeah, I've got a Blue Peter badge."

Like, I'm always looking for something to do.

I'm always looking for an extra challenge.

BELL RINGS

Right, let's settle down quickly, please!

At the beginning of each year, form groups are asked

to vote for a leader.

Monday, we spoke about form leaders, OK?

So, it's about people picking someone who wants to represent 7C.

So, put your hand up if you think

you'd like to try and go for form...

Wow, loads of you!

You have 30 seconds to give your speech to the class.

I think I would be a good representative

because I think I can help people inside the classroom.

I would like to be a form leader because I'm a good helper.

In my old primary, I usually do jobs every lunch time,

morning and after school.

A form leader is, like, a really good opportunity

because you need to make friends,

and the only way is by making yourself stand out.

I think I'd make a really good form leader

because I like to help people

and, like, if you've got any troubles then you can come to me.

Give her a round of applause then, guys. Well done, thank you, Morgan!

I think that in school, I'm like a girlie girl, wearing skirts,

wearing heels, and things like that.

I'm just trying not to get it on my nails, out of all things.

But then at home, I'm like, forget that, just chuck owt on.

Like, tracksuit bottoms, I don't really care

because I'm going out into t' woods anyway.

# We are young

# We run free

# Keep our teeth nice and clean

# See our friends, see the sights

# Feel all right. #

Right, remember, we need to get sticks that are like, big.

Big stick. I found a stick.

Oh, wow. We need to put that one above, don't we?

I think that's going to be a bit too weak, don't you?

I think I am a bit bossy.

No, we need to go that way a bit.

But actually, I don't really mind if people call me bossy

because it's like a compliment, because I like taking charge.

Aaron! Start finding more twigs!

Why are you making me do all the work?

I am helping! I'm supervising.

I'm doing all your free labour, thank you.

Right, Aaron, put that up, like a roof, so I don't get wet.

Put it, can you put it like more to my side, though?

Morgan is tough because if you mess with her, you'll know about it.

You'll know if she's mad.

It needs to come more, like, sticking out, like an actual...

Yeah, further, further.

You could have done a tiny bit better.

Aaron knows who's boss.

But will Morgan's classmates want her to be in charge?

OK, I've collected all the votes in

for your form leader nominations, OK?

Shall we have a drum roll, yeah?

-Let's have a bit of a drum roll? OK.

-DRUM ROLL

Right, the winner is...

Morgan. OK?

-Stand up for me, Morgan.

-APPLAUSE

This is your form leader, this is the person you voted for

to go to all the meetings and go and represent our form.

Well done, Morgan, OK?

This is my time to shine.

This is the time that I need to, like, put my head down, get on with,

like, getting a job and things like that because I want to be, like,

a vet, when I'm older.

Like, any opportunity I get, I like to be with animals.

If Morgan wants to be a vet,

this next lesson should be right up her street.

It's dissection day.

-Oh, it's so scary!

-The Year 7s are ready to face the unknown.

I'm going to be sick. Argh!

So, as promised, a rat.

Now, this is going to get a bit gory.

If that's not for you, then go and do your maths homework and come back

when it's all over.

This is the rat.

-It's all flat.

-It's in a vacuum pack.

It looked like it was laminated.

The back was flat, the belly was flat.

Literally, it was just straight, like this.

It will make you sick.

It's been kept in a liquid that's kept it preserved.

It's a bit flat, so I'm just going to move it around a little bit.

-It does smell a little bit.

-The smell, I didn't like the smell,

-it was horrible. It's like raw fish.

-No, worse!

Right, say hello to Mr Rat.

If it comes back to life, I'm scarred for life.

-Eurgh!

-So, we have to get this first layer of fur off, OK?

So, I'm going to cut it just here.

When they cut it open, I was like, kind of...

OK, that's a bit unnerving.

There was a layer of fur and then skin.

-Oh!

-I can't see it.

-Hold on.

I was surprised with how Mr had some skills with cutting.

-Do you cut that up?

-Right, there is one.

I will hold it up. I just don't want the insides of the rat to fall out.

I'm not opening my eyes until the end of the lesson.

Whenever I'm in a hyped mood,

I just try and take a deep breath

and calm down.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Abdul looked like he couldn't stand a second watching,

looking at that rat being dissected.

I'm going to cut up... After the stomach, that's the liver.

Dissection is really important to do in schools

because it gives the pupils the opportunity

to really understand sort of how bodies work, how animals work.

The fact that we are quite similar to a lot of them inside.

A lot of them perhaps might not get that, and so, to cut them open,

get hands-on and see and smell it,

it sort of really brings that to life.

-I feel like I'm going to be sick.

-You going to be sick?

I'm fine, I'm fine. Just a little bit, just a little bit.

-OK, all right.

-Sir, he did it in our primary school

-and our teacher screamed.

-If you need to be sick,

there's a bin just there.

It smelt like...erm, super powerful vomit.

And I felt like I was going to vomit and I needed fresh air.

Right, if you can open the stomach...

No!

-A mouse has jelly beans in his belly.

-Kidneys.

-Yeah.

There were kidneys inside the rat.

But they looked like jelly beans.

It's not as big as that. It's like the shape of...

When Mr Shore pulled out, like, its heart,

it was too much for me. So, I just went to the back of the classroom.

As much as it killed me inside, cos I didn't want to see

the poor rat taken to pieces, I wanted to watch it

cos it's a part of biology and I'm going to have to dissect

something myself in the future.

I enjoyed it, yeah. It was educational.

RIP, rat.

Who really, really likes animals here?

Yeah, OK?

How does it make you feel? Like, put your hand up, tell me.

-How does that make you feel?

-Erm, it makes me feel

sorry for the rat, but then it makes me feel glad

that I've actually seen the guts and gore,

because I want to do it when I'm older.

You want to do it when you're older? That's awesome.

Even after seeing the rat, I still want to be a vet.

I don't care. Because if you really have a passion for animals,

you will put up with whatever you need to put up with

in order to help them.

Talk of the dissection is buzzing around the school.

I bet it has put you off eating, hasn't it?

It's put me off eating. Look!

Mr Shore wants to know how his class feel about it.

We're going to discuss how the rat dissection

made you feel in the last lesson, OK?

Cos sometimes in science,

we have to do things like that to find out how the world works.

So, you thought that it was sick.

Then I felt sick, I literally, after the thingy...

I was OK with looking inside, it was the smell.

Can you describe the rat dissection in three words?

-Morgan?

-Interesting, educational and cool.

Our Year 7s are still talking about animals

and this lesson might just help Abdul decide

if he wants to turn vegetarian or not.

OK, so, if you think we all should be vegetarian, you go to this side.

If you think we shouldn't, you go to this side.

Quietly, please, Jack. Thank you.

Generally, quite a lot of people eat meat two or three times a day,

sometimes people have it for breakfast, for lunch and for tea.

Our bodies are only actually designed to eat meat twice per week.

OK, who wants to talk to me on this side?

Erm, I picked no, everyone shouldn't be vegetarian,

because God made those animals

for them to be killed and for people to eat them.

-I know it's cruel, but it's really tasty.

-It's cruel, but it's tasty.

That's a really good message, I like that.

Let's go to Morgan and see what she's got to say.

I think that we should all be vegetarian

because animals are getting killed.

Vegetarian meat, I have it tried before.

-Yeah?

-And it tastes, like, OK.

So, you could just live off that

and then animals could, like, still be alive.

So, let's speak to you, Ella.

-Ella?

-So, why were you a vegetarian at one point?

-What made you want to?

-Because I felt like eating animals were, like,

disgusting. Because they get killed for no reason.

I tried to be vegetarian for a week.

At the end, my mum, she cooked chicken wrapped in bacon

and I couldn't resist and I had to eat it.

OK, so, shhh, shhh, shhh!

Right, Abdul, what's your point of view on this?

So, my point of view is that if everyone eats vegetables all day,

then they will be healthy, but they won't have a lot of proteins.

-What does eggs contain?

-Protein!

-Protein.

I've been vegetarian since I was younger than all of you.

So, I get quite a lot of my protein.

I've been a vegetarian since I was ten.

I'm really confused so far, because I like animals but,

at the same time,

like, salad and stuff, they don't taste as nice.

So, I'm just really stuck in the middle.

Why can't I just figure it out right now?

Today, there is a year seven trip to a working farm

where the animals aren't pets, but bred for food.

-Did you know my dad was a butcher?

-I didn't.

-Yeah!

And it's already on Abdul's mind.

I mean, our freezer is filled with meat.

Maybe today will be the day.

-Yeah.

-When I see the animals,

I could probably figure out what I want to be.

A vegetarian or a non-vegetarian.

Ah, the beautiful English countryside.

The rolling green landscapes,

the peace and quiet and all that fresh air...

Eurgh! They've just shovelled the poo right there!

When we got there, it smelled like animal's dung!

I nearly died. The smell just killed me.

It killed me already.

-It suffocated!

-It was like, bleurgh! Bleurgh!

Oh, the smell!

It's manure!

-I can't...

-MR SHORE:

-I think it smells nice.

Lovely!

I'm originally from the country, so, for me, I actually felt like

I was getting into the fresh air.

But I think for a lot of them, they

were definitely holding their noses from a long way out.

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Whirlow Hall Farm.

We're going to be working with you today

and we've got lots of jobs for you to do.

Is anybody here feeling a bit nervous about working with any of

-our animals?

-The chickens.

-The chickens?

-I don't like chickens.

OK, so you're a bit anxious about the chickens.

It's perfectly normal to feel a little bit nervous about working...

Hang on, I thought Morgan loved ALL animals.

-Buck, buck, chicken!

-Shut up, I don't like chickens.

Buck, ba-buck, buck, buck, chicken! I actually don't like chickens.

CHICKEN CLUCKS

Cluck-cluck! Pfft!

OK, Kayden and Morgan, it's time to feed the chickens now.

So, I've got you both a bucket of feed.

Not many people have a fear of chickens.

I was, like, the only one on the farm that had a fear of chickens.

-Are you all right, Morgan?

-Yep. Good.

But Morgan's facing up to her fears.

-Don't worry.

-They're all running towards me.

I don't like it.

Oh, my gosh, they're coming near my feet.

Morgan, don't worry.

Don't flap near me.

I've got a fear of you, so, yeah, move.

So, if you want, you can give her a stroke.

Just stroke her down the back of her body, like that.

-That's it.

-I were really nervous at first.

And then I started to overcome my fear as I started stroking 'em.

Kayden, you don't know how much I have faced my fears today.

That's really good. I'm really impressed.

It's easy, Morgan. Don't be scared.

I just don't like them because they've got red eyes and

they just, like, look weird and creepy.

Their eyes were black, not red.

I saw one with red eyes.

So, this is Angela and Angela has 12 piglets.

So these are about a week and a half old.

When we saw the piglets, like,

I fell in love with them straightaway.

Look at the little baby one! That's tiny!

It was about this big.

It was, oh, my goodness, it was adorable.

I want one. Look at his little bum.

So, on our farm, we're not just about little piglets,

we're growing pigs here for food.

So, these pigs here are nearly ready to be sent away to be made into meat

for us to sell in our shop.

Just think, these were once cute little piglets

and now they're just going to be dead.

That's the reason that our farm is here - to grow pigs

so that we can make food for people to eat.

It absolutely reeked in there.

There was, like, a really bad smell,

I think it was either the food or them.

I just knew that if I stayed, like, a minute longer,

I think I wouldn't make it.

Why did you want to come outside?

Because if I didn't come out, I probably would have died in there.

There is a good reason why Muslims don't eat pigs.

I'm a Muslim, basically.

And Muslims don't like pigs because

they're dirty, they're unclean, they're untidy.

So Abdul won't eat pork.

But what other meat can he eat?

Cows, chicken, roast, turkey, lambs,

everything else is on the menu.

Year seven are given the important job of weighing the sheep.

And if the sheep are over 40 kg, they will be sent to the abattoir.

OK, so you two are going to be in here with the sheep and you're going

to be getting the sheep into the scales.

-So do we kind of round them up?

-Yeah.

-Let's do this!

-Go on, get that one.

I don't want them to bite me.

-Just push them in.

-Keep going round.

-They won't bite you.

-Just get in!

Abdul, oh, my gosh.

Go and push that one. Push it!

I'm just a little bit scared of pushing them.

-They're all right.

-Morgan!

Abdul, no offence, it was pathetic.

You can hold it like he is, put your arms around.

Abdul were just cuddling them.

Come on! Get in there.

Come on, do it for me. Come on. Right, this one.

And Morgan were coming in with one hand just, like,

throwing it to the side of the pen.

She was like a machine. She was like, "Abdul!"

Yeah! You need to help me, Abdul.

I keep thinking that I've hurt it and I don't like hurting animals.

You're not hurting them!

I tried to make sure that, like, I wasn't any harm,

then I'd just push them and just push them!

Yeah, you're supposed to push them in,

not hug them and then make Morgan do most of the work.

Get it in! Get in!

Morgan's like, "Come on, just get in!

"Get in!"

-MR SHORE:

-There you go.

-Go, Morgan, yeah!

-Well done, Morgan.

-Ready?

OK, well done, everybody. That's been absolutely brilliant.

So, how many sheep have we got here?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Brilliant, so that's ten sheep that are ready to go to the butcher's.

-These are like, going to be dead?

-Yeah.

-MR SHORE:

-I think it did set in then,

a few of them did actually realise,

they had this moment where they had

actually opened or closed the gate,

they had decided themselves whether the sheep were going to go off and

ultimately be killed for the butcher's,

or whether they were going to be allowed back into the field.

But we were just like, we've just put them into death.

And it was so sad, because knowing that they are going to go to the

abattoir just to keep us fed.

I felt really guilty.

If I could, I'd have, like, let them all go.

I don't feel right about them going to the butcher's.

The only possible way that we can see them again

is as chopped up lamb.

It made me think about how I should appreciate, like, the food,

because an animal has actually died for this.

But I don't think it will change owt,

because I'm going to a restaurant and

I'm probably going to have ribs.

So, you've not been put off eating meat then, have you, Morgan?

What about Abdul? Have you finally made up your mind?

Erm... Erm...

Hmm...

-It's decision time.

-Erm...

-Erm...

-Drum roll, please!

Erm, erm, erm, erm, erm...

I've decided to go for non-vegetarian,

because I do like animals,

but I like them more when they're in my stomach.

-Want some?

-No, thanks.

-Next time...

-Who put the tarantula in there?

..our students visit a job fair...

-No, no!

-..with a difference.

I have arachnophobia!

Do not move your hand quickly.

Rats only need to go, "Eek!"

They don't need to go, "Hello, my

"name is Kayden and I like to rap!"

The smell of the rats

was like from his bum!

You got your tie wrong there.

These are meant to be behind the collars!

-Follow the rules!

-Same with you.