Our First Green Flag!

Today 38 of us went outside, some to work on the allotment, some to do composting and some to look at the site for the proposed meadow and outdoor classrooms. Before that we took our newly awarded Green Flag out to take a photo and here it is! All we need now is a flagpole.

 

Bird Watching

This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Watch, to mark this we have had our own bird watch in the grounds. Unfortunately workmen were out and it was lunchtime meaning that only a few bold crows, doves, pigeons and magpies were around. We used the RSPB’s counting sheet to help us. To encourage more birds into our grounds we have now put 4 coconut feeders up and construction was started of our new bird feeding station (to be finished next week). Why not have a go counting the birds in your garden this weekend or make your own birdfeeders? You can find a link to instructions here. The rest of you spent the time composting and put the full composting caddies into the new composting bins (set up by the kitchens for now). There is now a collection rota and new compost caddie collection site in the year 6/7 playground where you can put your apple cores etc.

Composting

Fridays session was all about composting. We are planning to compost as much of the material from the veg patch and “waste” from lunch boxes as possible. Penny from Leicestershire Council came in to talk to us about composting and what we need to do to do it well. For those of you who missed her presentation Penny has allowed us to publish it above, so have a look through. She also told us that we can get 3 composting bins for the school to get our composting started! Watch out for the composting caddies to put all you lunchbox compostables into!