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Mrs Wheeler wrote to Simpsons Garden Centre in Mintlaw and this is their reply. Well done Mrs Wheeler and a big thanks to Simpsons.

Subject: ECO group, Green Flag Award

Good afternoon Victoria and thanks for getting in touch with us about your gardening plans for Arnage school with your ECO group. I would be delighted to give you some seeds towards your project, it’s the perfect time to start propagating to have ready in time for spring and summer. I will also be able to include a voucher to use in store towards other items for your project. All that we would ask is that you let us know how you’re getting on and send us pics of your project.

We don’t have a schools programme as such, but Becca from our team in Mintlaw is available if you want to pop in for any advice. Also as ambassadors for Cultivation Street, I would recommend also having a look at their website for inspiration and resources for your project. You can also register and enter their annual competition for school and community garden projects, visit their website at: https://cultivationstreet.com

If you can confirm the postal address for the school, I’ll have these items posted to you asap.

Kind regards

Siobhan MacBean, Simpsons, Mintlaw

Marketing Manager | Customer Care | Community

 

Well done Mrs Wheeler. She applied for the school to get some bee bombs and was successful.  We’ll be getting a whole load of wild flower seeds to plant in our wildlife garden.

We were out in the cold (and the rain for a bit) this afternoon. Got the whole school out and spotted 10 different species of bird in the end. Great effort.

She made these great posters to encourage everyone to do the Big Garden Birdwatch last weekend. We are going to do the Big Schools Birdwatch in the next few weeks.

We’ve signed up to the nationwide scheme to plant a heritage apple tree for our school. We’re looking forward to planting it in March.

A messy business, preparing the Arnage wild bird banquet.

Arnage birds will be well fed and watered this winter:

Thanks for all your donations.

Don’t forget, the Big Garden Birdwatch is on between 28th -30th January too, if you want to take part at home?

If you have any of these things can you bring them in to school please (so we can make bird kebabs and apple feeders, pine cone feeders, water feeders and other food feeders)?

Fruit like apples or melons

Raisins

Nuts

Seeds (especially sunflower seeds)

Bird Food

Dried fruit

Cheese

Old bread

Lard

Pine cones

Large plastic yoghurt pots and an old saucers (to make bird water feeders)

Large clear plastic drinks bottles (to make feeders)

Today we are planning for the Big Schools Birdwatch. We are going to work out what we need to do make it work well and what we need to do before the day.

This page is useful for ideas of how to feed and water the birds:

RSPB Feeders ideas

Week 1

We all signed up and promised to do our best for the Eco Committee. We spoke about why we wanted to be on the committee

Week 2

We looked at the Green Flag award website and watched a video about it. We spoke about some of the things we could do

Week 3

We signed up to the Green Flag Award scheme. Some of us went to the polytunnel with Mrs Wheeler to pick the vegetables we still had left and tidy up

Week 4

We divided into groups and started our whole school Environmental survey.

Week 5

We completed the surveys and told each other what we had discovered

Week 6

We told the rest of the school and the parents about our survey and what we had found out. We also completed the Survey section on the Green Flag website

Week 7

We started to talk about what could go in our action plan.  We found out a bit more about each of the ten areas and what we could do. We narrowed it down to four areas that we thought we needed to work on. We also started making paper leaves for the border of our noticeboard

Week 8

We interviewed two parents and invited them to join the committee. They had some good ideas about what we could do – wormery, organise a litter pick, a campaign about parking with your engine on.

Week 9

We decided on our three areas: Litter and Waste, Biodiversity, Climate Action. We started to think about what things we could do in these areas and began designing posters for our noticeboard to let the rest of the school know what we are doing.