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Junior School Garden

18th November 2010

In PSHE lessons Form 2 and Form 3 have been thinking about how to improve our school grounds. With Mrs Freer's help, they planted crocus bulbs in the Junior School garden, and are looking forward to seeing the first shoots in Spring. Thank you to Mr Gardner for his support with this project.

23rd September 2010

The Junior pupils were delighted to see sweet peas still blooming on their Scent Tent this term. We planted the seeds in the summer and the flowers are still going strong, with some seed pods forming nicely. We hope to harvest the seeds and plant them for next summer.

15th June 2010

The Scent Tent

F2 pupils in the Junior School have been growing sweet peas from seed this term, and last week they planted out their seedlings in the school garden, kindly assisted by Mr Gardner, the gardener, who has has cleverly constructed a willow wigwam for the sweet peas scramble up. It's big enough for the children to crawl inside, and they are all looking forward to sitting inside 'The Scent Tent' and enjoying the delicious smell of the flowers. All we need now is some warm weather......

11th March 2010

Lifted

Form 2 and 3 lifted their daffodils from the school garden to take home for Mother's Day.

11th March 2010

Last January we found out that the Woodland Trust will supply all schools with 30 free trees every year for planting around the grounds. So we ordered a pack of trees and these arrived last week.

The pack contained 10 x Silver Birch, 10 x Rowan
and 10 x Wild Cherry.

Adam and I planted one of each tree at the far side of the pitch and hopefully these will grow well in the next few years and fill up this corner.

A further 8 trees were planted yesterday, the 10th March at the Junior School. The students helped and I showed them the correct way to plant the trees. See the photographs.

Hopefully the remaining trees will be planted next week.

11th November

The Junior School have now put their school garden 'to bed' for the winter.

On Friday 6th November the last of the carrots were pulled (see photo) and the pupils enjoyed them as carrot sticks at break time! We've had a very productive year in the garden and it's been a most worthwhile practical learning experience for the pupils.

All of the Junior School pupils have also planted out their daffodil pots ready for spring and the Marie Curie Cancer Care Mini Pots of Care fundraising appeal in March.

For more information on this please click here www.mariecurie.org.uk/minipotsofcare

23rd September

Fyling Hall Juniors are delighted with the results of their gardening project, which they started last term with the help of our gardeners Mr Stephenson and Mr Gardener. We had an excellent crop of cauliflowers, and the marigolds and lavender are still in bloom.

The pupils have also grown a selection of herbs, and are keen to add their hand-reared parsley to fish and chips next time this dish appears on the menu.

2nd July

Junior School Garden Update by Morgan, Saskia and Arthur

The Juniors made a school garden to help us understand how plants grow and they will also supply us with food for the kitchen. So far it’s gone rather well. We have grown the plants in a specific way to make it look like a moustache, beard, hair and eyebrows. We have made the stones look like a mouth, eyes and ears. We have been sketching the garden every so often. Some of the measurements are…

Cauliflower - about 50cm each and there are 6 of them growing.

Lavender - about 22cm each, 6 of them are growing, plus one of them was flowering.

Calendula - about 15cm each, 4 of them are growing.

Rocket - about 18cm each, 8 of them are growing.

Parsley - about 10cm each, 1 of them is growing.

Sage - about 18cm each, 1 of them is growing.

5th June


Forms 2 and 3 sketching the development of the school garden as part of our scientific enquiry into growth and living things.

22nd May

Fyling Hall Junior School have planted out their flower and vegetable garden that Mr Gardner prepared for them recently. Ms Edwards and Mrs Freer provided expert guidance and the children enjoyed the pleasure of getting their hands dirty in the soil.

To make the garden more fun, Ms Edwards designed a face using some flagstones brought in from home by Mrs Birchall, and the children planted the flowers and vegetables around the flagstones to soften the edges. If you look closely, you will see that their planted face has nasturtium hair, carrot and cauliflower ears, rocket, parsley, sage and calendula side burns. He also has chives for his mouth and lavender for his chin.

Mr Richardson showed the children a quick and easy way to plant a plant that is still in its pot. He scooped out some soil to make a hole large enough for the pot, put the pot in the hole and packed the soil around it. Then when he pulled the pot back out of the soil it left a hole the perfect size to take the plant once the pot had been removed. So simple really.

On a larger scale, for the first time in many years, Mr Gardner and Mr Stephenson have planted out the vegetable garden. The food produced will be used by the kitchen to help feed the staff and pupils. They have planted many different types of vegetables. These include rocket, lettuce and tomatoes for use in salads, onions for flavour, and several rows of early and main crop potatoes.

There are also several types of green vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and a mystery vegetable which has been named “White Surprise”. The label was mislaid so it will be a surprise to see what it grows into!

14th May

The early stages of their new garden: firstly removing the grass and then rotavating the ground to produce a seedbed.

Fine soil for a seedbed is most important as this will help the seeds to germinate quickly.

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