The children can't wait for the spring when they can go out in the garden and use the pond safely.

      

Last year the boardwalk was out of use as it was completely rotten so FOGG agreed to use some of their fundraising money to help us replace it as it is something the whole school benefits from.

At Garrick Green we love our garden and are so grateful for our team of volunteers who work so hard all through the year at maintaining it.  They also run a gardening club for our children in Y1 and Y2, teaching children about keeping the garden tidy and about planting seeds and bulbs, watching them change as they grow and flower. 

 

         

In our garden, as well as the pond we have raised beds with flowers and vegetables.  There are also fruit trees and well established beds of flowers and shrubs,  a leaf composter and plenty of compost bins for our fruit and vegetable waste, bird boxes in the mature trees and there are also plenty of places for insects to live including a very fancy bug hotel.

                

We can teach the children a lot of the science curriculum in the school garden, especially now we can use the pond again - a favourite activity is learning about the life cycle of frogs as we always have lots of frogspawn each year.  There is plenty of other wildlife in the pond for children to identify and last year we even had some ducks on the pond who had made a nest in the garden and laid some eggs.

         

The garden is also a great place for staff to enjoy during their lunch break!