Autumn Term Newsletter Week 1
Attendance Policy
15 September – Health & Safety and Harvesting.
The first session of Gardening Club 2014/15 welcomed 17 Year 2 Gardeners (the Year 1 Gardeners start at the beginning of the Spring Term) to a warm and sunny School Garden. After a quick reminder of how to garden safely and of the names and uses of each tool, everyone helped to harvest Runner Beans and to start clearing some of the beds of weeds and old plants and mulching with leaf mold ready for Autumn and Spring planting. Some of the Runner Beans harvested were really long as you can see!!!
SIAMS – CHURCH INSPECTION
25 June – Year 2 Gardeners Harvesting Visit to the Norfolk Show
What an exciting day! 10 Year 2 Gardeners, accompanied by Mrs Senior, Mrs Bryant, Mrs Livingstone and Mr Lynn went to the Norfolk Show to harvest our crop of the potatoes as part of the British Potato Council Grow Your Own Potatoes Challenge (we planted the seed potatoes during a visit to the Norfolk Showground back in March). We are pleased to report that we harvested 520g of Rocket Potatoes and 500g of Maris Peer Potatoes coming third overall. We also enjoyed lots of other activities such as milking, chick handling, pedal tractor riding, mint sauce making etc… and the weather was fantastic as you can see!
19 May – Sunflowers (The Big Challenge)
Another dry session which we made the most of by transplanting the rest of our seedlings. Gardening Club Members then planted a Sunflower Seed to take home and grow with the promise of a prize for the tallest!
Ofsted Report April 2014
28 April – Transplanting Seedlings 1
Thankfully, the weather stayed dry again and we managed to transplant all of our Lettuce, Mange Tout, Carrot and Beetroot seedlings (which we planted in modular trays to grow in the Green House earlier in the year) into the Gardening Club beds. We even had a few left over Lettuce plants to pot on and hopefully sell to parents when they have grown a little more!
31 March – Grow Your Own Grub 2
A busy session in the School Garden saw Members planting Sweetcorn (Red Strawberry and Minipop) in modular trays to start growing in the Green House, plus transplanting Lettuce and Beetroot seedlings grown earlier in the year into one of the Gardening Club beds.
24 March – Grow Your Own Grub 1
A lovely sunny afternoon session saw Gardening Club Members sowing Peas, Tomatoes, Spinach and Carrots in modular trays to start growing in the Green House.
