Our living willow dome has now been constructed, and last week Elvis Beetham gave a talk in each of the classrooms to explain how the willow will grow to create a leafy den to play in.
Ms Kilcoyne, teacher of the Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class spotted the wonderful picture below online and would like to create a similar display along the fence of our garden.
Ms Kilcoyne, teacher of the Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class spotted the wonderful picture below online and would like to create a similar display along the fence of our garden.
Old children’s wellies are needed for this project so if you have any lying around please bring them in; Laura will leave a box outside her classroom for them. If they are leaky, no problem as drainage holes will be made in them anyway. What a great way to recycle something that would otherwise be destined for the bin!
If you have any ideas for brightening up the school garden, or getting your children involved in growing their own food, we would love to hear from you.
The school garden team is currently very small, but we are passionate about creating a beautiful environment where the children can relax, play, and learn about nature and where their food comes from. If you’d like to help by joining in with digging, sowing, planting, weeding or watering, you would be made very welcome. No previous experience necessary!
Our plan is to arrange a regular weekly gardening slot from 2pm – 3pm (day to be confirmed) when we can meet to work on garden projects with those parents and children who want to get involved. Ideas for projects in the near future include:
If you have any ideas for brightening up the school garden, or getting your children involved in growing their own food, we would love to hear from you.
The school garden team is currently very small, but we are passionate about creating a beautiful environment where the children can relax, play, and learn about nature and where their food comes from. If you’d like to help by joining in with digging, sowing, planting, weeding or watering, you would be made very welcome. No previous experience necessary!
Our plan is to arrange a regular weekly gardening slot from 2pm – 3pm (day to be confirmed) when we can meet to work on garden projects with those parents and children who want to get involved. Ideas for projects in the near future include:
- Weeding the beds in readiness for planting.
- Sowing sunflower seeds, peas and beans in large yoghurt pots (please collect these if you use them and keep them to one side), and keeping these watered in school.
- Planting seed potatoes and onion sets direct into the soil.
- Creating a herb garden e.g. parsley, sage, lemon balm, dill, coriander, lavender.
- Sowing carrots direct into the soil.
- Planting out the sunflowers, peas and beans when they are ready, along with seedlings we have sown at home: pumpkins, courgettes, lettuces, rocket, beetroot, rainbow chard, scallions, kale, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, flowers…
- Planting up our flower bed. We are very grateful to the Rural Social Scheme gardeners who will once again be donating decorative plants to our school garden. As mentioned in the last newsletter, if you have sown any plants for us we would be delighted to incorporate them into our display!
- Constructing a bird table / feeding station.
‘’Why try to explain miracles to your children when you can just have them plant a garden.’’
Robert Brault
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