Health Science

LCC, SCHOOL OF ANIMAL CARE & LAND MANAGEMENT TRANSCRIPT

Interviewees: Keavie, student (SPEAKING) – Faith, student (SPEAKING) – Jack Anderson, Head of School of Animal Care & Land Management (SPEAKING)

Music – Soft, plucky strings with a soothing string harmony accompaniment. 

Scenery – Different close-ups of Temple Newsam’s animals, including a white hen with a red comb, a small kid laying on hay, a pig getting its belly scratched and a small squirrel-like rodent with large black eyes. Three students wearing coveralls walk towards the camera through a sunny yet rainy farmyard.

We are introduced to student Keavie, who sits in a walled garden and has long brown hair with a short fringe, a medusa piercing and lip piercings. Keavie has a fair, cool-toned complexion.

Speaker: Keavie, Animal Management, Advanced Technical Diploma, Level 3 –  “I really love this course, like, I’ve grown up around, like, farming and stuff my whole life. This course, to me, is just like what I was kind of made for. Like, not to sound cliche or anything like that, but it’s literally, like, the perfect thing for me. Like, I finally feel like this is my purpose. I just… I love it so much and it’s just one of the best things ever.”

Scenery – As Keavie speaks, the camera pans to the three students in a cobbled barn with an animal pen to their front. A student opens the pen gate, and Keavie steps in, followed by the others. Camera close-ups include a student holding a black sheep while speaking, Keavie speaking to a fellow student while holding a fluffy white lamb and a close-up of the fluffy lamb’s face.

We are introduced to student Faith. Faith sits in a walled garden and has burgundy-tinted brown hair tied in a tight ponytail with long corkscrew curls. Faith wears a red puffer jacket and has a deep golden complexion.

Speaker: Faith, Animal Management, Advanced Technical Diploma, Level 3 – “I’d say my favourite part of the-this course is the, like, I work with a variety of different animals, and it can range from crested geckos, an-and rabbits, and… degus. And then, it’s like a drastic turn to – next minute… I’m cuddling baby lambs, and I’m walking and grooming donkeys. Like… I didn’t think that on a normal Monday morning I’d be walking donkeys! Erm, but, honestly like-it’s like, it’s the most amazing thing I can even think of. Like, I feel really proud that I can just go ‘yeah – I walk donkeys on a Monday morning… that-that’s what I do!”  

Scenery – As Faith speaks, the camera cuts to a gloved student holding a yellow lizard on an examination table, a close-up of a small grey and white squirrel-like rodent, Faith holding her hand to a young goat’s face, then Faith stroking and hugging a pale-grey donkey. The camera then shows Faith leading a grey donkey from its pen into a cobbled farmyard. Here, she walks with another student who leads a white donkey. The camera follows as they walk along a cobbled road with red-brick buildings and a tractor.

We meet head tutor Jack Anderson, sitting in a walled garden wearing a dark green jacket. He has fair, olive-toned skin, slight stubble, and dark blonde hair with a high fade and side part.

Speaker: Jack Anderson, Head of School of Animal Care and Land Management –

“Temple Newsam is a really special place to study. It’s a 250-acre historical estate, um, it’s got a wide variety of habitats, it’s got Victorian glasshouses, it’s got one of the largest rare breed farms in Europe. It’s really unique for learners to study in a setting like this, there’s nowhere similar like this in the country.” 

Scenery – As Jack speaks, the camera flashes through close-ups, including a brown duck waddling by a pond, a row of cows eating at a trough through their grid, a large turquoise lizard with a mauve face, a long Victorian glass house with fields and hedging to its front and a Naked Neck chicken with vivid red colouring. The camera slowly zooms out from the farm entrance, showing red-brick stables, buildings and a cobbled farmyard.

Speaker: Jack Anderson – “One of the biggest aims for staff here is to make sure that students are practically competent in their fields, and students get access to a minimum of four hours practical a week – if not more. And they’re working in a real working environment, where they’re working with animals and the farm, and in an animal care centre and all the horticultural settings. “

Scenery – As Jack continues, the camera shows different close-ups of animals and students, including a yellow and orange snake being held by a gloved student with supervision, a student hanging up a donkey’s harness while smiling and laughing, and Faith pushing a wheelbarrow through a paddock.

Speaker: Jack Anderson – “Um, and we want students to have those really employable skills, which they really practice and embed regularly, to make sure that they’re best in their field. And there’s a really natural holistic approach to teaching and learning in this environment. Cos we all have similar interests – both staff and students, so it’s a really great place to work and to study.”

Scenery – As Jack continues, the camera shows Keavie zipping up a bee-keeper suit, getting help putting on its protective hat, and then kneeling by a wooden beehive and pumping smoke into it.

Speaker: Keavie – “Even though it’s an animal course, oddly enough, I’ve learnt to actually, like, hold a conversation with people and stuff like that. Like, when I joined this, because you have to work as a team and stuff like that, I’ve learnt to be a more sociable person and be more comfortable with who I am around people as well.”

Scenery – Keavie and two students walk on an outdoor path in between animal pens and fields. A head-height wooden fence and green grass are on either side, and autumnal trees are in the distance.

Speaker: Faith – “I’d say, like, even just, day-to-day, I feel much happier. Like, I come in and I think, if it’s raining and it’s – this weather’s grey – like, it’ll put me down in a mood, but then I’ll be like… wait a minute, I’m going to clean something out, or I’m going to, like, walk the donkeys or groom an animal. And it just makes you feel a bit better about yourself cos you’re making the difference to that animal – like, you’re improving its day as well. And then it’s so rewarding when you see, like, what you’ve done and that animals had, like, a better enclosure or they’ve been fed. And, like, animals are just so affectionate and close to people. It makes you feel like, so overwhelmed with comfort and happiness, it’s-it’s crazy.”

Scenery – As Faith speaks, the camera shows Faith talking and smiling to a student off-camera as a small, long-horned goat eats from her hand. Cut to Faith adjusting the harness of a grey donkey and affectionately stroking the donkey, now with its harness removed. Cut to Faith and her fellow students adding hay to a feeder.

Speaker: Keavie – “I genuinely just feel so at home and it’s like… I’m looking after these animals, and I’m like- I’m actually looking after life. People find that in, like, wanting to be a midwife and stuff like that. I find it here because it’s just… it’s so beautiful. It’s like, the other day we had baby lambs being born like left, right and centre – it was crazy. And it’s like, I get to look after these as well until the end of their life, and it’s just so bizarre that I’ve got so much responsibility. But, it isn’t like an overwhelming amount cos’ it’s something that I really love and I find peace in.”

Scenery – As Keavie speaks, the camera shows close ups including Keavie scratching a ginger pigs belly, Keavie and two students stroking a black cows face as it licks them, the students laughing and gushing over a black baby lamb and Keavie happily walking through the farmyard as the sun shines behind.

The screen cuts to black, with a white Leeds City College logo and text that reads “SCHOOL OF ANIMAL CARE & LAND MANAGEMENT”.

Music – The soothing, upbeat string melody fades.