Our wonderful gardening club, headed up by the fantastic Mrs Richardson, introduced chickens to the school garden yesterday. Don’t worry, our feathered friends are not running around the playground freely – Mrs Richardson received some funding to purchase a chick coop, and some kind community volunteers (Mark & Dave) offered to build it for us.

We now have a total of 4 chickens in the school garden and, only 1 day in, we have already collected 3 eggs! We plan to setup a rota to ensure that the chickens are looked after, including an egg collection rota. The eggs will be sold as a little enterprise project, with the money going towards the cost of feeding and caring for the chickens.

We are running a competition to name our new chickens – watch this space! Also, if you have any spare egg boxes at home, please send them into the school. Thank-you!