Peel High School agriculture students take out multiple wins in Walcha Show competitions

The students, from years 8 to 12, took sheep from their Suffolk stud and managed to walk away with the ribbons for best pair of rams, senior champion ewe, champion ewe of the show, champion exhibit, and on a points count, the most successful exhibitor.

Agriculture teacher Ben Bowman was with the students through every step of the journey to the show day.

"I'm very proud of them - they put in a lot of effort and time to get [the sheep] presentable and away for show," Mr Bowman said.

"It's nice to see all the hard work they put in in their own time."

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The students took the challenge on as an extra-curricular activity, taking time out of their recess and lunch at school to get the animals ready to go.

"They've been breaking in the sheep and preparing since the start of term so as well as getting used to being on the halter, feeding the sheep, trimming fleece and [to] make them look presentable," he said.

"All agriculture classes go out and help but kids that show the sheep, it's a bit of an extra-curricular thing because they put in their own time."

Next up, the students will be taking their prize-winning sheep to the Gunnedah Show in mid-April, then onto Dubbo Show in May.

"[Dubbo Show] is the biggest meat sheep show in NSW so that's quite a big sheep show there," Mr Bowman said.

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