Welcome to Cookridge Primary School's Garden: Bulb planting and other jobs

85 hyacinth bulbs later and what a brilliant week.

By Thursday I was becoming an old hand at this bulb planting and recruited 4 helpers from Class 8, who were fantastic. The girls got the KS1 children in line and made sure that they all had gloves and a pot before shuffling them towards me. I supervised the filling of the pot with compost, and ushered them to Jamie who made sure that they put a bulb into their pot. Joshua helped the children add more compost around the bulb and Jade showed where to put them in the trays. Then the children covered them with plastic and hessian sacks and then went off for a tour of the garden and a story under the tree.

Today, Ali took over from Jamie and had the added bonus of taking photos of the children and their bulb. He did a sterling job for Mrs McHugh's Class One. Amy joined us and did Jade's job. They all did an excellent job and all thoroughly enjoyed the responsibility of it all. I was able to just let them get on with it and was proud of how they worked as a team and made it all flow freely with no fuss. Thank you, you guys - I know who to call if I need help again!

Jamie, Joshua and Jade also helped me plant crocuses and snowdrops in our wildlife area which was another job off the list, though we need to get a lot more. It was a start. We also put some old chairs that were lurking in the garden in our bird hide and agreed that we need to make it all a bit more bird friendly. Taylor appeared in the garden and between them, they are going to design some bird feeding stations and sort out our existing feeders.