Lots to learn in a cowshed

You can learn a lot in a cowshed, especially if it has a resident teacher.

In Britain a farmer's wife has set up a school in a derelict cow shed.

The teacher, Anne Miller, had lost her job at the local village primary when it closed so she set up their own private school at Hollyfields farm at West Bourton in Dorset.

It cost Mrs Miller £250,000 to convert the old cow shed into two classrooms, toilets, office and staff room. The farmyard is now a concrete playground and the old vegetable patch is the football pitch.

Mrs Miller said that the children were able to interact with the animals that were running around and that is was good for them.

In total there are five teachers there looking after nearly 25 children aged betwen four and nine.