17th September 2015
Mrs Upton and Mrs Johnson have been busy with children across the school, working to create a garden to be proud of! The children are loving being outside and taking care of a range of plants.
We were excited to see how well everything had grown in the garden during the summer. There is a lot of jobs to do over the coming half term and Mr Trueman has kindly given us some spring flowers to plant. We also have the bulbs that we found when clearing the flower beds last term to replant into tubs too.
Yrs 1 & 2 were the first out today and they found the abundance of caterpillars and their eggs on the radish leaves. Thankfully the pumpkin plant has fuzzy leaves protecting them, although unfortunately the slugs have eaten a few of the flowers. We hope of the 11 flowers left, we will get some more pumpkins and our one current baby pumpkin continues to grow and turn orange.
The Strawberry plant is doing really well and seems to have bedded down well in its stacked troughs,however all of the fruit is still green. Years 3 & 4 we're quick to tell us that the strawberry plants need sun as well as water and suggested we moved the plant to the sunniest spot we could find in the garden, so we did. All the children that came into the garden today helped to pick up the rotting apples from the grass. Various tools and methods were used for collecting them with the children showing great energy and enthusiasm, with over 120 collected in under an hour!
Nursery and reception we're quick to find the bright yellow tomato plant flowers and then counted four green baby tomatoes that still have a long way to go. They pulled up a few carrots and decided to replant them for a little longer as they were no bigger than our little fingers. Two of the sunflower plants have grown so tall that they are taller than Mrs Johnson and Mrs Upton, we're going to measure them next week and look forward to collecting all their seeds.
