Get composting!

We have been making our own soil by composting our food waste, but not only that we have been encouraging other people to compost their own food waste too by writing persuasive leaflets and making videos to spread the word!

So much food is thrown away into land fill sites or burnt creating CO2 when most of it could be simply composted and turned into fresh, nutrient rich soil!

We want everyone to compost their own food waste instead of filling their bins with it!

Year 3

We have been working really hard not only growing our own fruit and vegetables but we’ve also worked hard to encourage other to do the same!We have done lots of research and written our own persuasive leaflets and flyers to encourage sustainable growing. We even made our own videos! Watch one of them if you want: Grow Your Own Food!    We’ve also put posters all around the school and lots of parents have started to grow their own too. Our nursery and early years have also started their own growing plots and if you walk around the school there are literally vegetables growing everywhere!

So we’ve grown our own and spread the word!

To our surprise strawberries and gooseberries have grown really well so far and we expect a bumper crop!

We’ve worked really hard to get as much growing as possible and we think it’s paid off!

Making sure they grow well!

Wow, we have been so busy!  Year 3 has been out in the Growing Zone planting our fruit and vegetables nearly everyday.

The list of baby plants we have planted is delicious! Beetroot, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, strawberries, green beans, runner beans, the list is endless!

We have also be working really hard on green issues, trying to be as sustainable as possible. We have used rain water to water from our new water butt and the children have put a food waste been in the staff room to try and get the teachers to collect their food waste, then the children will put this in our new composter to make our own soil!

In literacy and Geography we have also been learning about green issues and are writing persuasive leaflets to encourage people to save energy, recycle their waste and grow their own food.

In DT we will also be making recipes using garden produce so we can learn about all the healthy and delicious things we can eat from the garden.

It’s great to be growing and great to outdoors!

We also planted pot upon pot of tomatoes!

LOOKING AFTER OUR SEEDS!

Year 3 get digging and planing

Getting the strawberries out!

This week we have discussed our project and had a good scout around the inner garden thinking about what we want to grow.

Now we have ordered a selection of baby vegetable plants to start off after the holidays, as well as a selection of small fruit trees to plant,

Next week we will be planting seeds in the green house, as it’s a bit cold for them outside!

We also ordered a water butt to collect rain water to water our lovely plants as they grow, then we don’t have to use any water from the tap!

Year 3

Now its spring we are just about to start our ‘growing zone’ in the inner garden of our school.

First the children will decide what they’d like to grow. Then we will decide where the best places are for growing in the inner garden in terms of sunlight and good growing material.

We will also start to make decisions about what we will do with our produce later on, whether to sell some of it to raise money for the things we need in ouR growing zone or to make things to eat and also sell.

This weekend members of staff and volunteer parents began clearing some of the overgrown parts away to make way for us!

In Year 3 we can’t wait to get out there and make a start!

Mrs Budden

Year 3 Class Teacher