Organised by the Glendale Agricultural Society, the day aims to teach children from 40 schools about rural issues by getting involved.
Over the last four years, the society has educated around 5,000 children from urban and rural schools on the imp
ortance of preserving the countryside and its way of life. Each year they have chosen a specific theme for schools to research prior to their visit and this year the chosen topic is climate change.
Children's day committee chairman Johnny Renner said: "This is the fifth time that children in the North East have had the opportunity to experience the process of food production and rural life and as always we hope it will be another huge success. This year we are introducing information on the environmental effects of climate change and how rural based industries are preparing to adapt to it."
The day is free for the pupils and funded by the society and its sponsors. Each year volunteers from nearly 50 of the North East's rural businesses come to the Wooler show field free of charge to tell the children about what they do.
There are no holds barred. The children learn about the nice, eg chicks and carriage driving, and the necessary, eg butchering a lamb and plucking a chicken.
The idea is that children learn new skills through interactive demonstrations while meeting the people who make the countryside what it is today.
In a programme that reflects every diverse aspect of country life, activities this year include milking cows, auctioneering livestock, sheep shearing, carriage driving, laying roads, making horse beds with wood shavings, tree planting, hunting with hounds and handling a gun dog.
