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Hillbourne School and Nursery commented on Welcome to 2012...As the spring starts to pick up speed we are launching to brilliant community projects in the school garden.
Firstly, we are going to work with a local Day Care Centre who work with adults with learning disabilities. They currently come into school to run the tuck shop but now they will helping in the garden and taking over some of the veg plots. Hopefully, this years strawberry crop will be sold on the tuck shop.
Secondly, Barclays Bank will be joining us for a community day where 14 of their employees will be coming in to help with some major landscaping work in the garden. It is hoped that a wildlife pond, new paths, sensory gardens and a bottle greenhouse will be built.
22 hours ago
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Rachel Fort created a new blog entry, And We're Off...We've been really busy within our fledging gardening club. We have now had 4 sessions which have involved the children splitting into groups each with a parent helper. Each week we try to not only introduce the children to a new aspect of gardening but continue to build upon what we did the previous week. So far, we have dug over our raised beds, planted up the neglected school planters with bright, beautiful bedding plants, planting some strawberries and general weeding/garden maintenance. We're looking forward to the installation of some canvas sides (with windows) for our wooden gazebo. Having these will mean we can hopefully work outside in all weathers! We are so grateful for all the support that our parents and community have offered. Photos to follow!
1 day ago
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Crawley Ridge Junior School created a new blog entry, Last environmental c...During environmental club this week, we split into 3 groups. One group was doing the final round of cooking leek and potato soup, one group was planting seeds, filling up pots with compost and general tidying up and our group went pond dipping. We left the small pond well alone as this was where the frogs had laid all their frogspawn and cast our nets instead into the big pond.
What an amazing variety of creatures we found! We were lucky enough to capture lots and lots of newts but we also found water boatmen, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs as well as pond snails. All proof that our school pond is very healthy!
44 days ago
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Hillbourne School and Nursery added 8 new photos in Spring Planting 2012 albumYears 1 and 6 team up to plant peas, brooad beans and french beans in pots made from newspapers. All stored safely in the polytunnel.
59 days ago
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Crawley Ridge Junior School updated a blog entry Get growing Day 10th...
We had a very exciting Get Growing Day on Saturday 10th March 2012 where teachers, parents and children carried out a wide variety of jobs around the school grounds. Compost was added to the remaining pots and beds ready for planting, seed trays were filled and seeds sown and these are now germinating in the mini greenhouses. We have decided to turn two of the raised beds on the terrace into herb beds, so bulbs and plants were relocated to allow this to happen.
We also tackled the old pond which over the years had become very overgrown so before the frogs settled in to spawn, some of the dead leaves were raked out and now we can see water!
61 days ago
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Crawley Ridge Junior School created a new blog entry, We have frogspawn!...
We were very excited when we checked out the pond during environmental club to find lots and lots of frogspawn in the pond – we even saw a number of frogs ducking under the water as we approached. We are hopeful for lots of new frogs this year!
64 days ago
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Crawley Ridge Junior School created a new blog entry, Get growing Day 10th...
We had a very exciting Get Growing Day on Saturday 12th March 2012 where teachers, parents and children carried out a wide variety of jobs around the school grounds. Compost was added to the remaining pots and beds ready for planting, seed trays were filled and seeds sown and these are now germinating in the mini greenhouses. We have decided to turn two of the raised beds on the terrace into herb beds, so bulbs and plants were relocated to allow this to happen.
We also tackled the old pond which over the years had become very overgrown so before the frogs settled in to spawn, some of the dead leaves were raked out and now we can see water!
64 days ago
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