Hot on the heels of visits to local restaurants, year four pupils at Constantine School this week welcomed a fisherman into the classroom who did not come alone.
Cameron, whose boat is based at Mylor Harbour but who fishes off Falmouth and in the Helford, brought along a host of live sea critters, including common crabs, spider crabs, velvet crabs, whelks, oysters, lobsters, black tipped star fish, shrimps and urchins, which the children were allowed to handle.
He also had with him a monkfish, cod, ray, lemon sole, Pollock, a mackerel and plaice which were used to help illustrate the class’s healthy eating module.
Pupils Gracie and Fleur said afterwards: “It was brilliant. He (Cameron) showed us many sea life creatures that he catches regularly and some that are quite rare but can end up in his nets or pots.
“Our favourite parts of the morning were: tasting the shrimps, crab and cod, learning how to kill a crab without hurting it, feeling how heavy the common crab can be, what a velvet crab feels like and how silky the shell is, how tasty the food is, how big a cod can get, where lobsters keep their eggs (hundreds of them) and how and why a lobster shoots its claw off.”
To round off the visit, teaching assistant, Jackie Skewes and Cameron worked together to cook and prepare a crab in front of the children who then all got to taste it along with cod, plaice and shrimps.
“This has been a great edition to our 'healthy me' topic where we are learning about food groups and what different foods do for us,” said teacher Cags Gilbert.
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