This week for our Outdoor Learning we looked at what happens to the things we throw away, and how what we recycle can be reused, rather than ending up in a landfill. We then went outside to our Science Garden to look at how we can compost organic material and reuse it to help our plants/vegetables grow. Did you know that the fruit & vegetables in our allotment are growing in 50% soil, 50% compost?
RHS School Gardening Award (Level 2)
Delighted to be awarded our Level 2 RHS School Gardening Award yesterday 😀 Congratulations P2c! 🌱🥕🍓 🥳🎉
We were delighted to receive the Level 2 Gardening Award from @The_RHS Well done to all of our super Gardeners at Kirkhill. #proudkps #kpsachievements #kpseco pic.twitter.com/Am02akZCCj
— Kirkhill Primary (@KirkhillPS) February 27, 2020
P2c Allotment: Planting Potatoes, Beans & Radishes
Today we looked at the seeds we’d bought to see what was ready to sow/plant in February. We then read the advice on the back of the packets before working in groups to plant potatoes, beans & radishes in our allotment 🥔 🌱
P2c Allotment: Planting Strawberries & Lavender, and Encouraging Wildlife.
This week we’ve been busy planting strawberries and lavender in our allotment, and installing a ‘ladybird tower’ to encourage wildlife to our outdoor space 🍓🐞🌿
P2c Allotment: Raised Beds
In P2c we decided to create our own allotment in the playground outside our classroom. Last week we used the iPads to research different fruit and vegetables that we could grow, to see what we’d be able to harvest before the summer holidays. 🥕🍓 Having done that, today we had 2 tons of top soil / compost delivered! We then used it to fill up our raised beds 😀🌱
P2c Allotment: Research
Primary 2 pupils using the iPads this morning to price seeds for our new planters and using our bee bots #kpsstem #proudkps pic.twitter.com/nHGobMaj2h
— Kirkhill Primary (@KirkhillPS) January 10, 2020
Outdoor Learning in the Science Garden
Growing Plants
Today in P2c, we planted daffodils and tulips in our classroom. We’ll be watering them each week, and will hopefully have lots of beautiful flowers in March/April!
Our First Week in Primary 2c
Here are some highlights from our first week in Primary 2 😀
