In the garden this week.....

We have had another busy week in the garden, with the children finishing the gravel in the polytunnel and sorting out all the pots and trays ready for next week's planting. The children thoroughly enjoy coming out with us and really work hard.  They always want to stay outside and help!

Garden Sales
The children have been helping selling our little daffodils and crocuses, spares seeds and daffodils bulbs in the school playground this week.  This seems another activity they love and there's usually a large group of children wanting join in and help which is wonderful.  

Olympic Donations

Thank you to Mrs Scholes who has kindly donated a full horse riding set of clothes for our Olympian scarecrows!  We have a riding hat, jodhpurs, jacket and boots!  It will look fantastic!  Please keep your donations coming!

Daffodils on Hillcrest Rise 

Last October, the children helped Councillor Ben Chastney and Groundworks plant hundreds of daffodils bulbs in the grass verge on Hillcrest Rise, opposite our school playground. I am very pleased to report that the daffodils are starting to appear in the grass and  will be a lovely sight in the spring for everybody to see!

Volunteers

If you would like to help us in the garden, we would love to hear from you. We are trying to form a group of people to help maintain the garden, especially the very busy summer months!  You don't have to be an expert or have any gardening knowledge and if you can spare an hour or more, that would be great. It will be totally flexible - we just need to people to weed, water, dig as well as plant and other gardening duties. Please feel welcome to come and chat to either Mrs Hawkins or Mrs Whitley at any time.

Ciaran with his bird feeder and ladybird house hanging proudly in one of our garden trees

Birdfeeders

We ran a little competition in January for designs for bird feeders and to camouflage our bird hide.  About four children went even further and actually built the birdfeeders!  The children have now hung their feeders in the garden trees and hope to attract various birds.  Elliott and Ciaran have also built two ladybird homes for the garden and yesterday, they came up to hang them in the trees too!  If you want to build any boxes or homes for the wildlife, please do and bring them to the garden!  Bat boxes, hedgehogs boxes and bird houses are all very welcome!