Floral Delights

Very proud on Thursday to have been asked to provide fresh flower arrangements for our staff lunch to mark the retirement of our head teacher Mrs Buchan.  We collected flowers and foliage from all our garden areas…

…and took them to the classroom to trim and arrange.

We delivered them to the library and they looked lovely on the tables.

 

In other news, Simon Whitworth from “Keep Scotland Beautiful” came that afternoon to have a full tour of all our gardens.  He enjoyed listening to our plans and how we use the garden for teaching and learning plus a huge variety of activities.  We look forward to his report later in the year and seeing what level we are awarded.  He loved what we have been doing and our plans for the future.

Today, pupils have worked really hard to get last minute jobs done - seeding the new grass path between the two polytunnels, weeding a border to plant out sunflowers, covering our soil pile to prevent weeds, and tidying left over sand, gravel etc.

Well done to them all. 

EAGerBunch wish everyone a happy and refreshing summer holiday🌤🕶

Hopefully there will be lots of produce growing when we return.

🥕 🧅 🥔 🍅 🍇 

Interact sunflower seeds germinate

 

Back in May, members of Interact sowed sunflower seeds.  They returned on Wed 12th June to see how they were getting on.

They were joined by Tanya, who came to see where the sunflowers will be planted in support of the people from her home country of Ukraine.  They will make a fine show later in the summer 🌞🌻

All hands on deck for concreting - Episode 2!

David Reid, our friendly farmer neighbour gave us a huge boost last Thursday by bringing his digger to move bulk bags of aggregate, sand and cement closer to the Memorial Garden gate.

This saved us a lot of time and energy!

On Monday, volunteer staff helped Sean and Miss S to mix more concrete.  As a team, we worked fast to keep the mixer supplied and turning.  

We tipped the concrete directly onto the platform then raked and tamped it smooth.

We continued after break in light drizzle but by period 4 we had to stop and cover the platform because it was raining too hard.  We washed all the tools and put everything away.

Thanks to Mrs Nicholson, Miss Noufal and Mr MacClarence for your hard work, and to Miss Thomlinson for helping to pack away in the rain!  Over and above for Sean M! 😎

One more push, and this platform should be ready for our gazebo!