Numeracy in the Garden

On Wednesday 9th March, the garden hosted its first Numeracy lessons!  23 Primary-7 pupils visiting the Academy for the day spent a lesson learning about the importance of accurate measurements and how to use Pythagoras's theorem to ensure that our rectangular raised beds will actually be rectangular!  Two groups of 8 and one group of 7 pupils worked with Miss Swallow over three 50 minute periods.

Teamwork and communication were essential to get the canes in the correct spot.

Learning to use a tape measure and keep it taught and level for better accuracy.

Our "words of the day" were Pythagoras and Hypotenuse!

Pupils sat in the shed to discuss the maths before putting it into action in the garden.  Well done to those groups who got the canes perfectly positioned and thank you to the group who measured the garden spaces so I can now create a scale plan in order to calculate the area of the paths more accurately.

Meanwhile, last Friday the EAGer Bunch got cracking with treating the shed...

...or is that the CSI team?...

and Miss Swallow helped out at the Transition Black Isle "Potato Day" last weekend which means she could bring back a selection of interesting seed potato varieties for us to grow in the garden. 

Also this week, we managed to collect 4 trailer loads of willow cut from the old school site.  This can be used to create new hedges and hopefully some interesting living structures...watch this space!  Thanks to Mrs Russell (ASfL), Mr Cruickshank and Mr Wilson from Technology for all your help!