End of a busy term

 

Thank you to all those who voted for our pocket garden.  The voting has now closed and we were not selected as a final winner for the building of the garden.  You can see the winners here.  We are proud of our garden and really enjoyed building it from our winning design.  We will keep our characters, and the plants are now being transferred to the Memorial Garden.

This week, we held a plant sale.  Staff came out at lunch time to buy an assortment of flowers, vegetable seedlings, herbs and trees.  

Thanks to all those who supported us - we raised £61.65 which will help us keep the garden maintained.

Dougal potting up plants for the sale

Setting up the sale tables

Last week, S2 humanities classes came out to the garden as part of Refugee Week.  They enjoyed the sunshine, and each sowed a sunflower seed in solidarity with Ukraine.  We will have a huge display in several raised beds later in the year so look out for that!

The classes also visited the Memorial Garden area.  They helped sow wild flower seeds and also got to see our "Remember River".  It is a dry river bed which will connect a water feature at one end, to a "pool" of blue flowers at the other.  We hope to scatter blue glass to sparkle like water in the sun and also make "tear drops" and circles from blue perspex with words engraved on them - both sad and happier words to represent a gradual adjustment to the loss of loved ones.  It was wonderful to have so many visitors showing an interest - folk have also pledged to help us build it when we return in August.

Dougal rolls out "the river"!

Earlier in the term, we were very happy to take delivery of roses from Harkness Rose Company as part of their community gardening scheme.  

They are red and yellow bush roses, white climbing roses and a very special yellow hybrid tea rose named John Ystumllyn.  John was an 18th century gardener who was the first well-recorded Black person in North Wales.  The rose is to celebrate friendship and community so seemed perfect for our Memorial Garden!

We have also been gifted some heritage apple trees from the Scottish Government as part of their "Nature Restoration Program" to help recover biodiversity.  We planted them, fed, watered and mulched them to give them a good start.  There are now small apples appearing.

Getting more plants into the ground before the end of term!

In other news, the recent good weather has brought the productive garden into full bloom.

Laser cut signs from the technology department look smart for our fruit trees.

Thanks to ex member of staff Elaine Anderson who returned to school to donate useful garden supplies...

...and thanks to staff who have continued to buy produce to support the garden.

Delivered with smiles!

Gooseberries ripening...

...onions drying...

...Lewis keeps the grass looking great...

...and we even manage to get some relaxation in too!

As a special thank you for all their hard work, the senior boys were treated to a pizza lunch today!

Tasty and toasty in just two minutes!

We wish everyone a happy summer holiday.

 We also look forward to returning to our gardens to make them even better together with others in the new term.