Plantable paper
During gardening today we made plantable paper, we used butterfly seeds, paper and warm water. We mixed them together to make mulch then used a press to dry and flatten […]
Category Archives: Gardening
Gardening club
All of their hard work is starting to show! The fruits of gardening clubs labours have begun to bloom – and are looking fabulous.
Outdoor explorers
Today we linked the outdoor explorers to the Jubilee – some children made a leaf bunting, others did the collages of the Queen and then they re-potted their sun flowers […]
Exploring our local area 🌳
This afternoon, the outdoor explorers visited Valley park to gather resources and explore our local area. The children took in the sights, sounds and smells of the woodland on this […]
Y6 Apples and Pears
Y6 went to the beach area to investigate the orchards. We couldn’t resist a tasty treat! Perhaps next time we could use them in our baking?
Growing together
The tiny seedling that one of our lovely Y3 children brought home on her last day of school has fully bloomed today. A really significant reminder that despite everything happening […]
What is Wild Challenge
The RSPB have a Wild Challenge – your chance to help wildlife, explore nature, and work towards awards by making your way through a heap of wild schools activities. What […]
Cake baking and seed planting
We’ve had a busy day today making and decorating cakes and planting more seeds.
Gardening
Today we have planted some onions in the victory garden beds. Fingers crossed we see some life soon. 🧅🧅
Exploring our sensory garden
What a wonderful place to look around and just take a moment to take the beauty in.
Exploring Plants in Y3S
Today in Y3S as part of our new science topic – we began to explore our school grounds to see if we could spot any plants. Once we had done […]
Y3S Help Save the Bees!
This morning in Y3S – linking to our topic – Habitats, we have been learning all about bees. We considered the question: Why do we need Bees? Y3S worked collaboratively […]
Sustainability
The children have been working hard around school collecting leaves, fruit waste and paper to add to our compost bays at the top of school. This compost, once ready, will […]
Visiting the Nursery
We have been buying plants from the nursery to grow and sell at this years summer fair. We have also bought some vegetables which have begun to grow from seed […]
Keep watering
We have been watering our vegetable patch since we came back to school from the Easter break and it is beginning to pay off! We have a lovely allotment beginning […]
Gardening in Y3 and Y4
As part of the Y3 topic about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages we started our own settlement at school by growing vegetables. We have continued with this as we start […]