The Busy Bees team were in school today helping the Eco Team (made up of 10 pupils from Years 4, 5 & 6) prepare to run three workshops during Eco Day next Tuesday for Reception Class and Years 1 and 2. The Eco Team are a hugely passionate group of pupils and couldn’t be more excited about teaching the KS1 pupils all about the wonders of trees! 🌲 🌳 🌲
Elsewhere, the garden is still full of pollinator friendly blooms which are absolutely buzzing with bees 🐝 🐝 🐝!
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We are delighted that the school will be running its annual Eco Day again this year on Tuesday 4th October. The children will participate in a number of different learning experiences across the day aimed at broadening their understanding of the ways in which we can help to protect our planet and the wildlife that we share it with. Like last year, lots of parent and guardian volunteers will be helping to make the day as successful and fun-filled as possible!
Different classes will participate in different activities, with workshops being run by some of the KS2 pupils for the younger pupils and parent volunteers and external providers also running other sessions. To help facilitate some of these sessions we would love your help: 1. If you have any (i) empty 2 litre plastic bottles or (ii) denim items of clothing which are at the end of their usable life, please can these be dropped off either at the office or in the 'Busy Bees' purple lidded donation box which is located outside the school gate. 2. If you are able to spare some time between 9.30am and 3pm on Tuesday 4th October to help support some of the fun sessions we would love to get you involved! Please let myself or Mrs Holmes know if you are keen to get involved and we will let you have further details of the sessions being run and their timings. Further details about the day will be sent out nearer the time. The Eco Day last year was a brilliantly fun day for the pupils and we hope to make sure it is again this year!. Many thanks in advance Year 1 had a lovely session out by the pond this afternoon looking at an amazing array of local wildlife. From whirligig beetles, shield bugs, water spiders, ramshorn water snails and an amazing selection of local moths, the pupils completed a wildlife quiz before helping to safely release the moths back into the forest. Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers who made the session so special and an extra special thank you to local conservationist and moth expert Martin Angel for sharing his knowledge on all things moth related and bringing the moths along for the pupils to enjoy.
The “Farnham in Bloom” judges from Farnham Town Council will be in school this afternoon weighing our pumpkins and measuring our sunflowers. Whilst they sadly aren’t the biggest pumpkins in the world, they have survived a scorcher of a summer and Year 1 should be very proud of them! We will be showing Year 1 the results of their planting last year when we take them pond dipping tomorrow.
The sunflowers have sadly nearly passed the best of their displays, but will be left for a while yet for the wildlife. I managed to rope Mr Groombridge and his extra long arms into helping me measure them today and our tallest sunflower comes in at a whopping 2.4 metres and was sown by our very own sunflower, Mrs Rigg 🌻. Her green fingers did the trick!
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