Our school library has a new resident, a spider plant! Mrs Vauhnman ran a competition to name the little thing, and Rachel Skimming – one of our members, I am proud to say – won. The spider plant is called Peter Planter, (after Peter Parker, Spiderman), and this month they are reading the Spiderman comics.
Since the Skills Academy has been so busy with the allotment, a lot has got done! The beds are filled, we have peas, potatoes and squash planted and more potatoes to be put in beds. Also thank you to the lady in the plot across from us (I think its plot 19?) who helped fill our raised beds full of soil – toiling work in the hot weather!
Last week, as part of the Skills Academy programme, pupils explored their local environment including the Stanley Burn and South Beach.
They also helped to plant trees for the Three Towns Growers and made huge progress on the school allotment, filling our raised beds and building a bug hotel.
A big thanks to our sponsor Green Home Systems (Energy/Utility).
We have been taking part in the UK space agency’s Rocket Science project, where we have two packs of seeds, one which has been to space. The task is to guess… which one? Our seeds have been sowed, and will be planted out in our allotment in the coming months.
We’ve also been taking part in the ‘Grow your own Potatoes’ scheme, and our tatties are getting along nicely over at the allotment site!
Our raised beds have been built! Thank you to the volunteers at the three towns growers allotment site, who built them for us (one less thing to worry about, with exams coming up). They look great! The skills academy will be over soon to move them into position and fill them with compost.
UPDATE:
Could all members of the committee go to Mrs Gilmours classroom tomorrow lunch (28/04/16) to design the allotment plot, now our raised beds are built and the tarpaulin is down.
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As exams are really soon (ahhh!), The Eco Committee will not be meeting on Thursdays now until the 2nd June. Eco Club will still be on during this time.
To everyone sitting exams, Good Luck!
The Three Towns growers held a tree planting day on Saturday to plant all 420 trees given to them by the Woodland Trust. the trees planted included dogrose, hazel, crab apple, blackthorn and elder. We also finished putting the tarpaulin down on our plot, so we’re ready for our raised beds to be built!
Our eco club has been busy organising a litter pick for around the school and local community – More details to follow!
It’s earth hour tonight! Turn off the lights from 8:30 to 9:30 and help highlight the issues facing our planet, like climate change, deforestation and poaching!
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