The team are delighted to announce the launch of the school’s beautiful new Community Market Cart!
The cart will spend most of its time on the school driveway where it will be accessible to school families and local residents alike and is intended to act as a “gardening swap shop” between the school and wider community. The hope is that anyone and everyone will use it to donate, swap or take home surplus fruit and vegetable produce, saplings, plants and seeds. Whilst donations are always welcomed (and will be put directly into the school garden’s compost fund) they are never obligatory. The Market Cart will also be host to a permanent herb garden which people are encouraged to take cuttings from rather than buying pots from the supermarket and which the pupils will maintain. Paper bags and scissors are available for cutting what you need. As always, we are hugely grateful for anything which you may wish to donate. Surplus tomato plants, your glut of rhubarb or your unwanted packets of seeds - they will all be put to good use by someone. We are also still welcoming old supermarket pots of herbs which the children can bring back to life with some TLC. Please feel free to get in contact if you have any queries: [email protected] Watch this space for lots of exciting events taking place this summer which the pupils will be making the most of the cart for. We would like to extend our thanks again to the RHS for their support for the project as part of their Connected Communities Scheme as well as to Councillor David Ashcroft and East Hampshire District Council who also helped to fund the project.
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Half of year 3 were out in the garden today sowing some seeds to support their curriculum learning about plants this term. They sowed 2 beds of radishes, 2 beds of carrots and some tomato plants for growing on in the potting shed. On top of that they topped up and watered their charlotte potato sacks which are doing well and growing strongly. The rest of the class will be out next week.
William from Year 5 brought in a wonderful pot of chilli plants which he has been growing on the windowsill at home and wanted to share with the school. With a little guidance he potted them on into individual containers which are now very happy on the potting shed shelf and will grow on under his care. Hopefully some may make it onto the new Market Cart for sharing with his friends later in the term! Well done William! The Easter holidays has seen a flurry of activity in the school garden. On Wednesday 13th April the Busy Bees team hosted 'The Big Dig' family gardening day which saw lots of families come along to enjoy the garden and to install and plant up our new "Pollinator Planter". The planter has been filled with a wide variety of annual and perennial plants which we hope will provide nectar and pollen to pollinators across the entire year. From hardy geraniums to lavender, verbascum, buddleia, echinachea, aster, viburnum and sunflowers, the planter will soon be a bee and butterfly friendly hang-out. On Thursday 21st April the team met again to watch the installation of our long awaited potting shed which has been funded through generous donations from the RHS (Connected Communities scheme), The Farnham Round Table and FORS. We got straight to work in using it and the pupils have already sown seeds for numerous summer annuals to give some colour and excitement to the school grounds. Thank you to everyone who came along and made the days such a success. Please get in contact if you are interested in getting involved in the school garden. No experience in gardening is necessary, we welcome families of pupils at the school as well as residents from the local area who are just keen to get outside and enjoy some company and sunshine.
Open to pupils and their families as well as the wider community, we would love to see as many local residents as possible at our upcoming "Big Dig" gardening event down at the school garden on Wednesday 13th April when the school is closed for Easter. Please do get in contact if you would like to join us! From constructing and filling our new "pollinator planter" to sowing seeds and potting on plants, there are jobs for everyone and no gardening experience is necessary.
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