The class has signed up to this year’s Picasso Cows program, a program that aims to educate young people about the importance of dairy in the diet and how it gets from the cow to the fridge.

The program will see the class create and design artwork for a white fibreglass cow that they will paint for judging later in the year.

The national program will pit all the schools’ designs against one another for national judging in September.

Hagley Farm School is not stranger to the dairy industry, with a lot of the pupils already from farming backgrounds.

A majority of the pupils are also from farm backgrounds and the school has a strong agricultural focus, with a farm on site and agriculture at the centre of learning.

Grade 5/6 Oswin pupil Daniel Douglas said the program would help teach them more about the process from farm to plate and educate those who were unaware of that process.

“We will learn about how it [the milk] gets from the cow to the supermarket,” he said.

“It [the module outline] said that 30 per cent of Grade Six kids think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows,” he laughed.

Fellow pupil Niekaylah Binns said the Grade 6 pupils were also going to learn how to milk real life cows, as part of the module.

Bella Dyer said she was looking forward to painting their Picasso Cow with their design, that they were still working with as a class.

Picasso Cows challenges primary school students to decorate casts of dairy cows as part of a curriculum programthat helps them learn about the dairy industry, dairy’s health and nutrition benefits, and the importance ofagriculture and food and fibre production, as recommended under the Federal Government’s National Food Plan.

Nine Tasmanian schools have accepted the makeover challenge to reinvent their Picasso Cow with a new student cohort, in the hope of becoming the National Makeover Champion and recipient of a $2,500 cash prize, which has in the past been used to upgrade school resources and facilities including new library books, sports gear, technology and playground equipment.