Whats Been Happening?

Sunday 18th March

Well we have been busy! last week karen and Michelle went on a spending spree, and we were finally ready to get started, we have recieved lots of donations of various pots and containers and last Friday we set to work.

We have decided to concentrate our initial efforts on the light well outside the textile room. We cleaned out the old planters and set to work planting . we had to take our trusty wheelbarrow out to gather some topsoil to fill the planters much to the amusement of pupils.

We seemed to have provided lunchtime entertainment for many pupils who found it hilarious to see all the activity,(the light well is viewed from the main corridor) we felt like the main attraction at chester zoo. But within minutes we had some new converts .

I find it quite sad that a lot of pupils think gardening is something that will seriously diminish their street cred, but we hope to change all that,and a big thankyou to the pupils who have come enthusiastically on board and and have made the project worthwhile.

We have started varnishing our bird boxes and hope to be able to put them into position this week. Mr Quinn has been a great source of knowledge in this area and came to school last week and helped us find the ideal place to put the boxes.We have chosen a small woodland area next to the sports hall , this area is a haven that is waiting to be discovered and through Mr Quinns connections we hope to do a mammoth clean up in the near future.

karen Tansey and I have also begun clearing the old pond area which we hope we can restore this spring, we have realised their is much to do and not enough time to do it in but already we can see that this is going to be a great project and we can't wait for the better weather to come so we can spend more time at break outside with our pupils "pottering around".

We have also realised that we will need more funds to buy plants for the areas we want to develop and so this wednesday(21st), we are holding a cake sale at break to be able to buy plants for the hanging baskets.

All in all we have been very productive and I am beginning to dream about gardening and find myself drawn to gardening websites, gardening flyers,and gardening books ,I can't go out these days without coming back with a packet of seeds (17p at Aldi).

It snowed this weekend and I'm glad Karen thought to bring our seedlings inside,I bought more seeds at Tesco yesterday is this an addiction?

more news later

Fiona