Our local farmer Mr McNee returned this year to our nursery to talk to the children about potato planting. The children helped to plant their seed potatoes and are now looking after them. We are hoping for a bumper crop this season to have for snack, along with the many vegatables we are growing in the nursery garden!!!!
Category Archives: Eco School News
Vegetable Patch
Now that the children have been able to get back into the nursery garden they have been helping to prepare the soil for our vegetable planting. We will be planning the planting with the children and going for walks to the local garden centre to buy seeds for sowing.
Greenhouse Update
A huge ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has brough in bottles for our greenhouse! We have quite a lot but need to count them now and make up the sides of the greenhouse. Keep bringing in the bottles, we’ll let you know when we have enough!!!
Eco Greenhouse
There has been a fantastic response to our bottle collection for the Eco Greenhouse. On Wednesday evening some parents volunteered to come along to the nursery to help cut the ends off the bottles and build them up into strips for easier storage. We have so far collected and prepared just over half the quantity required. Well done and a huge thank you to everyone!! Keep collecting and bring bottles along washed and labels removed, after the Christmas break!!
Spring Planting
Last week the children helped to plant some spring bulbs in the nursery garden. We hope to have a colourful display of daffodils, tulips and crocus in the Spring!
Autumn Activities
As Autumn arrives we are starting to learn some Autumn songs. The children helped to set up an Autumn display, which has generated a lot of interest and we will be going out for Autumn walks to collect leaves, pine cones etc for the display. Our HNC student will be carrying out an Autumn art activity with the children using the leaves collected from their walk.
One of our Autumn songs the children are learning is:
(Tune to Frere Jacques)
Brown leaves falling, brown leaves falling,
On the ground, on the ground,
Autumn time is coming, Autumn time is coming,
All around, all around.
Vegetables Harvested
Way before the Summer holidays the children planted carrots, beetroot, lettuce, spring onions and onions. They helped to look after the plants by watering, pulling out weeds and thinning them out when they grew big enough. When we returned after the summer break we were amazed how they had grown and that there were no weeds to be seen!!! The children helped to dig up the vegetables, wash them and cut them up for snack. They all tasted absolutely yummy!!! Lets hope we are as successful next time round!!
Potato Harvest
Mr McNee our local farmer and Alastair’s daddy came back to visit the nursery children to help harvest our potatoes. The children have been very good at looking after the potatoes and have enjoyed seeing the different stages of growth. We managed to get 32 potatoes of varying sizes weighing in at 500g. One even looked like a snowman!! We have sent our results off to the Royal Highland Education Trust who are running the competition for the heaviest and most potatoes harvested! A great big Thank You to Mr McNee for all his input!
Celebrating Success
We are very proud to announce that we have achieved our Silver Award for Eco Schools. A huge ‘Thank You’ must go to Mrs Purvis, supply nursery nurse and mum of Ellie (am session) for all her hard work collating and co-ordinating activities, display board and eco evidence, for this award. Very well done also to all the children and staff for their hard work helping to achieve this. Next year we plan to continue and extend this work so that we can achieve our Green Flag!!! Keep up the good work everyone!!!!
Rain Catchers
As part of our ongoing eco activities we are saving water by using our home made rain catchers to water our garden and nursery plants.
