Last week saw many of the children investigating the digging area in the garden for the first time. This is a place where the children often show super imagination in developing their ideas. This little group transformed a patch of soil and some rainwater into a “mud park for dogs”, using stones, mud and some bits of wood, showing good teamwork and communication skills. Perhaps we have some engineers of the future here?
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Eileen has left a comment for everyone:
“Hope you are all having a lovely holiday. I would like to thank our new janitor, Mr. Nicholson, for watering the plants – I was worried about them. I am really pleased the veg has grown, just wish it had been a bit warmer in April so we could have planted the seeds sooner, then they may have been ready before the holiday.”
We would like to thank Mr. Nicholson too. Those plants will certainly be very thirsty in this weather.
We hope that everyone is enjoying their summer holidays. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has been in Nursery this week and was amazed by the progress of our vegetables. The combination of the sunshine and Mr. Nicholson ensuring that they get watered daily has produced some fantastic courgettes, peas and beetroot. Hopefully, when we go back in August there will still be an opportunity to sample some of our produce.
After lots of busy days with graduation and whole school celebrations as well, of course, as the visit from the Cornet and Cornet’s Lass, we eventually found time on the very last day of the year to return to Ollie’s allotment to check on the potatoes we had planted. It may officially be summer but we still needed wellies and suits in the rain for our little adventure.
As you can see, the children were delighted to find that their potatoes had grown. Hopefully, each of the children who chose to go to the allotment took a potato home to show their families. Thank you so much to Ollie’s family for providing us with this opportunity. It’s been great fun and a good learning experience. Sorry if your supply of potatoes will be depleted this summer.
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In the last few days we have been able to harvest some of the vegetables in our raised beds. Some of the children tasted rocket for the first time and seemed surprised that they actually liked it. Well done boys and girls for looking after your vegetables well.
We have a message from Ollie’s Dad about the potatoes we planted at their allotment:
“Boys and girls. Just to let you know the potatoes you all planted have started to shoot so please pop by for a visit. Not quite ready for picking yet.”
Well done everyone! You are turning into expert gardeners.
After weeks of carefully watching the progress of our caterpillars from tiny little squiggles to big fat caterpillars who formed their cocoons, we finally saw our beautiful butterflies emerging at the end of last week. After a few days of nurturing them on sugary water and slices of oranges, the time came to release them. We could think of no better place to set them free than our outdoor classroom among the buttercups, trees and long grass.
Initially they seemed to be a little nervous of leaving their safe home but once we’d all had a close look at them and they had felt the sunshine on their wings, they flew away to cheers and clapping from everyone. We hope that we have captured the joy on the children’s faces as they watched their butterflies flying off to their new life.
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Last week’s sunshine and showers seemed to bring a sudden spurt of growth in our vegetable garden. The children have been excited to see the little courgettes starting to form and all the other vegetables which are showing great progress. Well done children and all those parents who helped in this project – you’ve obviously got great gardening skills. Thank you also to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing us with all our equipment and for organising this project. It’s been great fun and a super learning experience.
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Our mud pie photos have brought a smile to everyone’s faces. Ollie’s Dad commented:
“Wow that looks amazing. Brings back many memories. Simple things……”
Imogen’s Mum seems to agree:
“Great outdoor activity! Looks like lots of fun.”
It certainly was fun and, as you can see, the children were engrossed with their mud pies for a long time.
You can’t beat making mud pies on a summer’s day. Here is our very busy team of cooks in their outdoor kitchen last week. No doubt mud pie making brings back a few happy memories for some of us.
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