We have made a school garden from raised beds. The children were involved in the committee and have taken a hands on approach to the initiative. We are starting by planting potatoes, herbs and summer flowering bulbs but over the coming months we are going to plant out our lettuce, beetroot, onions and carrots into our lovely new raised beds. We have also planted some beautiful lavander plants and Peoney Roses in the front bed of the school which gives the school a fresh new look!

We are so happy to have received the funds from Change X! It has made such a difference to our school community and we have now planted some potatoes, herbs and summer flowering bulbs in our new school garden. Students were involved from start to finish and it has been a great experience for all!

Last year in our school, we started a growing programme with the children in individual classes where we grew flowers and vegetables. This year we are hoping to expand the programme to all classes in the school. As a committee, we met to discuss the best way forward for our school as whole. We feel that the best way to proceed is to give every class group their own individual raised bed in which they can look after and manage through the different growing seasons of the year. There is considerable expense to create these raised beds and we feel that it would be a great investment for our children as it will give them access to outdoor education year round.
We have a team of passionate teachers assembled that can lead the project across the entire school. Additonal funding will be used for tools for the children to work with, seed money for some flowers and vegetables to purchase and perhaps funding to create a wild flower patch (depending on funding remaining) We know that we will make full use of this funding and also facilitate the children to help in the decision making process on how best they would like to spend the money. We have expertise from a local horticultarist who is very supportive of the project.
At all times, we followed government guidelines on Covid safety ensuring that social distancing was maintained, masks were used and that sanitiser was used before and after on shared surfaces.