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Hurst Lodge School created a new blog entry, RSPB Birdwatch...We took part in the RSPBs Birdwatch this week by watching the visitors to the vegetable garden. The children are now pretty good at identifying blackbirds and the odd crow. I had expected a more diverse selection of birds, we certainly get a gratifying number during the day, but perhaps having 40 young and excitable bird watchers all standing there counting, identifying and asking questions put off those avians of a more nervous disposition!
112 days ago
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Hurst Lodge School created a new blog entry, Brrrr - Winter's her...This week the weather took its toll. The hose pipe froze solid causing its spray nozzle to be ejected with the force of a small exorcet missile. The garden club members valiantly braved the -1 degrees only to discover that the bags of potting compost were frozen into blocks of iron and the trowels and forks had been firmly secured into the soil in the same manner as Excalibur had been wedged into its stone. We dragged several weighty bags of frozen compost into the polytunnel and are now waiting for them to thaw before attempting to sow cauliflower, leek and flageolet beans.Year 7 made a good stab at reassembling the automated watering system and succeeded rather to their surprise to complete most of it. The only problems were one or two missing pale blue attachment screws and a number of decayed connector cables. These are now on order and we look forward to turning the system on. This week they considered composting and the correct chemical processes required to enable the breakdown of organic materials. The younger age group studied worms and woodlice and refilled the birdfeeders with home made bird suet in time to participate in the RSPB's Spring Birdwatch.
115 days ago
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Hurst Lodge School created a new blog entry, Seeds Seeds Seeds!...This week at Hurst Lodge we created some seed packets to put our own spare dried runner bean seed in. We created a seed label and a 'glue your own' envelope and the children added the beans and the 'when to sow' instructions on the back of the packet. (this covered both DT and English rather nicely) We have discovered that we need slightly larger glue your own seed packets if you are trying this with younger children as their packets get smaller because of the amount of glue used! All in all the packets will take 10 largish seeds rather nicely, it makes them easy to store and easy to sell.
207 days ago
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Hurst Lodge School created a new blog entry, Blog title The Polyt...
This week in the polytunnel, everything is continuing to grow and flourish!
As a 6th form, we have been given the task of looking after it and all the vegetables growing in it, and it’s been very successful, every day a couple of members of the 6th form go out and make sure there is enough water for the plants and picking out any of the dead vegetables..
Having said that, we do get to pick the vegetables that are ripe, and this week we have picked loads of ripe, juicy and succulent tomatoes, which we have given to the kitchen…making Helen and her team really happy, I have a feeling that we are now in their good books!!
We will be continuing to let you know how the polytunnel is getting along, and hopefully will be able to show you some pictures of it at some point in the future.
Looking forward to keeping you up to date,
Kelly Wright Warhurst,
6th Form
241 days ago
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