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The School Garden Project Blog

Read our blog posts to keep up to date with all the exciting news and progression of our School Garden Project.

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  • 21/03/23

    The Big Seed Sow

    This week in Eco Club the children have been sowing some more seeds and measuring our Tomato and Marigold seedlings to see if they were ready for pricking out! This was a tricky skill to learn, not touching the seedlings too much, being gentle and careful so as not to damage the roots. We were...
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  • 20/03/23

    Saturday 18th March 2023

    Our volunteers had another busy, productive day on Saturday, completing the new tool shed, building the wooden planters and filling them and the newly constructed polytunnel beds with topsoil. I think you will all agree it is starting to look fantastic, and the children are beginning to ge...
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  • 13/03/23

    Saturday 13th March 2023

    Another busy Saturday for our team of volunteers working on the school garden project. This weekend saw the construction of the tool shed and bamboo screening going up on our fence. Thank you once again to Mr Darley, Mr Clarke, Mr Steele and the Patman family for all their help. It is look...
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  • 13/03/23

    Wednesday 8th March 2023

    We are delighted to announce that we have received our Level 1 and Level 2 award from the Royal Horticultural Society Campaign for School Gardening, and are well on our way to achieving Level 3 status. The RHS Campaign For School Gardening is a five-level rewards scheme p...
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  • 13/03/23

    Tuesday 28th February 2023

    The first vegetable / flower seeds and onion sets as part of our school garden project have been planted this evening by members of our fantastic Eco club! The children learnt which way up to plant the onion sets by identifying the roots and establishing that these needed to be in the soil to anchor...
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  • 13/03/23

    Saturday 25th February 2023

    The school garden project is well underway with the construction of the Polytunnel now complete. The next stage in the development needs topsoil. If any of our wonderful Ayscoughfee Family have any topsoil or know where we could obtain some please get in touch. We need to level out the ground a...
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  • 11/02/23

    Saturday 11th February 2023

    We could not be more pleased that after a lot of hard work the polycarbonate tunnel is up! Thank you to the Jeffries family, the Patman family, Mr Fairbrother, Mr Gent, Mr Darley and Mrs Wright for all of their help and hard work! It was lovely to see some current and future pupils and famil...
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  • 04/02/23

    Saturday 4th February 2023

    Another busy Saturday at school to finish off erecting the polycarbonate tunnel. There were many technical moments screwing the frame together, before connecting some sections of the polycarbonate. Thank you so much to our amazing volunteers; we even allowed them a lunch break today...
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  • 27/01/23

    Saturday 28th January 2023

    Fast Forward a few months and work is well and truly underway. Mr Darley and a group of volunteers kindly gave up their Saturday to start laying the foundations for the polycarbonate tunnel. It was a busy but successful day, the ground was dug over, ivy was removed from the fence and many holes were...
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  • 20/01/23

    Our Vision

    Last year the school was proud to announce we had been accredited with the Eco Schools Green Flag Award. As part of our work towards gaining the award and the continued work towards sustainability, we committed to building a School Garden. We wanted to create a stimulating and motivating place for p...
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