An action packed week!
These are the "Walking Stick Cabbage" seedlings that we launched our competition with.
On Friday, there was a "Malawi Awareness Day" (MAD) in school. S1 pupils have been learning about the country and collecting back-packs to send out to children there. They contain basic equipment like pens and pencils, some clothes, and a spoon. The awareness day was to raise money for the charity that send the back-packs out - it is called Mary's Meals. It costs them £6 to feed a child for a month and through fun lunchtime activities, classes collecting "loose change" in bottles over several weeks and a non-uniform day today, we have raised over £1600!!
One of our first cabbage sponsors arrives. Pupils paid £1 to adopt a cabbage which we will look after and take to the garden centre (Frank Nicols) in Dingwall to be on display over the summer holidays. Anyone can visit to see them growing and guess which will be the tallest. The pupil (or teacher for that matter!) who adopted the tallest plant will win £10, and the person who guesses the nearest height of the tallest one will win a £20 voucher to spend at the garden centre.
Earlier in the week, Danielle strained the "comfry potion" after it has been stewing for three weeks. It was pretty pongy!! Great plant feed for the cabbage as they get bigger.
They don't look much yet, but here you can see we planted out several types of squash plant. They got watered in well by rain on Thursday evening.
Another big event of the week was a sponsored walk. The whole school were involved and we all walked 11 miles! There were marshalls along the way and the weather stayed reasonably dry for us. All money raised will go to the school fund (which has been very generous in helping us get the garden started).
A great spin off from the walk was that the council were busy planting out hundreds of geraniums on the first corner. Miss Swallow enquired as to what would happen to all the pots and guess what? They gave them to us! A huge pile was dropped off near the garden later that day! This is great, as we have decided to grow seedlings and plants (both flowers and vegetables) to sell next year to help us be self sufficient in our funding.
After the sponsored walk, Catriona and Charlotte finished potting up the cabbage seedlings for the competition - and tidied the shed too! Well done girls.
On Monday this week, pupils were on holiday - staff had an in-service day. Miss Swallow put out some of our excess plants - carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic - and some lupins and geraniums for the staff to buy.
Meanwhile in the garden, the lettuce are showing through.
The radish are getting bigger...
...as are the courgettes! Notice the willow seat looking bushy in the background!
These are the "Walking Stick Cabbage" seedlings that we launched our competition with.
On Friday, there was a "Malawi Awareness Day" (MAD) in school. S1 pupils have been learning about the country and collecting back-packs to send out to children there. They contain basic equipment like pens and pencils, some clothes, and a spoon. The awareness day was to raise money for the charity that send the back-packs out - it is called Mary's Meals. It costs them £6 to feed a child for a month and through fun lunchtime activities, classes collecting "loose change" in bottles over several weeks and a non-uniform day today, we have raised over £1600!!
One of our first cabbage sponsors arrives. Pupils paid £1 to adopt a cabbage which we will look after and take to the garden centre (Frank Nicols) in Dingwall to be on display over the summer holidays. Anyone can visit to see them growing and guess which will be the tallest. The pupil (or teacher for that matter!) who adopted the tallest plant will win £10, and the person who guesses the nearest height of the tallest one will win a £20 voucher to spend at the garden centre.
Earlier in the week, Danielle strained the "comfry potion" after it has been stewing for three weeks. It was pretty pongy!! Great plant feed for the cabbage as they get bigger.
They don't look much yet, but here you can see we planted out several types of squash plant. They got watered in well by rain on Thursday evening.
Another big event of the week was a sponsored walk. The whole school were involved and we all walked 11 miles! There were marshalls along the way and the weather stayed reasonably dry for us. All money raised will go to the school fund (which has been very generous in helping us get the garden started).
A great spin off from the walk was that the council were busy planting out hundreds of geraniums on the first corner. Miss Swallow enquired as to what would happen to all the pots and guess what? They gave them to us! A huge pile was dropped off near the garden later that day! This is great, as we have decided to grow seedlings and plants (both flowers and vegetables) to sell next year to help us be self sufficient in our funding.
After the sponsored walk, Catriona and Charlotte finished potting up the cabbage seedlings for the competition - and tidied the shed too! Well done girls.
On Monday this week, pupils were on holiday - staff had an in-service day. Miss Swallow put out some of our excess plants - carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic - and some lupins and geraniums for the staff to buy.
Meanwhile in the garden, the lettuce are showing through.
The radish are getting bigger...
...as are the courgettes! Notice the willow seat looking bushy in the background!
Hey Miss, Did you give the bag with the flip-flops in it to Mr.Patterson for MAD?
ReplyDeleteI think I left my school calculator in the bag, and I wasn't meant to give it away. lol.
I am sure I will get it back. :)
I put the bags into our store room, so come and see me first thing on Monday and you can get your calandar back! :) Do you like the photos? I started writing the blog and realised what a busy week we've had!
ReplyDeleteThank you. We have had a busy week! Charlotte wants next week to come quick so she can go round the classrooms. :)
ReplyDeleteI do like the photos. The one of Lewis eating lunch is funny. :P
I am allowed to go on the walk, which I am glad about because it sounds like it will be really interesting.
I realised that it's the day before I go to Paris, so I am going to be super exhausted the next day and I have to get up at 3 am. :(
I enjoyed the walking stick cabbage sale it was good fun and i would like to do that again. :P
ReplyDeleteLewis looks like a pig stuffing his face
lol :)
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Charlotte Finlayson
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