Sunflower Competition Winner plus: Cake, Compost and Clearing Pumpkin Plants!

This week, Danielle did a school announcement on the tanoy system - well done for keeping your nerve!!  She was announcing the winner of the Sunflower competition we held throughout the summer.  The winning plant was adopted by a member of the public: Miss Harwood.  She has kindly donated the prize to our fund!  The tallest sunflower was number 2 and grew to a height of 2 metres and 17 cm.  Twelve people guessed the correct plant, so we put their names in a hat and drew out the winner.  This was Miss Tullis who teaches geography and rural studies in school!  She wins a £20 Frank Nicol's voucher to spend.  We'd like to thank Frank Nicol's for hosting the competition and taking care of the plants all summer - we couldn't do it without your support!

So far, we have raised just under £40 for Sense Scotland who help deaf-blind children.  We plan to boost this amount with a bake sale next Friday - so please bring some money and enjoy some of our baking at break or lunch time!

Talking of baking, on Wednesday this week we enjoyed a cake...

...baked from our very own pumpkins...

...soft and delicious!  Everyone enjoyed a piece.

We burnt off the calories by banging three more posts into the ground for our new compost area.

We were careful to measure the diagonals first, to ensure they were equal in order to get the compost square!  We used Pythagoras's theorem to work out what the length of the diagonals should be as each side is 1.2 metres long.

Meanwhile Danielle, Sara, Ayisha and Sophia got busy clearing away the old pumpkin plants.

The three Musketeers?

On Thursday we continued with the compost bay posts - we now have 6 in ready - watch this space for the cross-planks going on!

We also spent time emptying a trailer load of bark onto the paths to keep it fresh and deep.

We extended the path a bit more...

...next we'll need edging on the left to keep the bark in place.

Also this week, IDL classes (that's Interdisciplinary learning - second year pupils) worked really well weeding, mulching and generally tidying the raised beds in the garden so things are starting to look a lot better for the winter.  They cleared the runner bean plants, old pumpkin plants and lots of weeds!