The school are continuing to improve the school grounds and encourage pupils to bring Science to life. The Primary 1s have enjoyed an outing to the garden centre and are now busy planting their purchases to grow vegetables to eat.
The children have planted;
- cress and sunflowers in pots to watch the life cycle
- nastursiums in peat pots to enable pupils to see the pots decompose into the soil
- peas, runner beans and broad beans in recycled washing tubs to watch the seedling sprout
- lettuce, radishes, rhubarb and parsley as plants to harvest prior to the summer holidays
- carrots, lettuces, beetroot, mustard and corriander from seed in our outside planters
Finally a variety of flowers in our tyres to add some colour after our late blooming daffodils have died away.
Lets hope the summer weather is kind to us and the children get a bumper crops.
The Primary 6, 6/7 and 7 pupils are undertaking their John Muir award and are looking ot enhance the grounds. After much debate ot was agreed that this is along term project and the first task had to be to clear existing bushes and plants that had grown old and woody.
This has not been an easy task and hard work has not escaped our pupils – I think they appreciate that gardening is not a sitting down job!
