Primary 4 are taking responsibility for a small piece of land within the school grounds and are going to develop it as a garden, ably assisted by Mrs. Hull. Other classes have responsibilities for other parts of the school grounds and every class has a designated planter that they have planted and are taking care of. All of this helped contribute towards our Green Flag Award which was truly a whole school effort.
 
The proposed garden was planned by the P4 class and has been weeded and rotovated previously by West Lothian Council’s Neighbourhood Environment Team but the soil quality wasn’t great. Luckily the Neighbourhood Environment Team noticed this and brought us a big consignment of top soil to help improve our garden.Â
The down side was – it arrived as a big pile and had to be added to the soil by our intrepid P4 gardeners. Thankfully they seemed to enjoy this task and were excellent at taking turns and organising the required jobs amongst themselves, with a few helpful words from Mrs. Hull when needed.Â
They made some interesting discoveries including a bright green caterpillar, how best to plant a planter and where the best places around the school are for planters. A great time was had by all and we look forward to the next installment of ‘how does our garden grow?’.
