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Brampton Village Primary School KS1 Gardening Club:
Thursday lunchtimes

An Eco Garden for the children of Brampton Village Primary school to help them understand where their food comes from.

LATEST GARDENING CLUB NEWS: FEBRUARY 2010

Welcome to a new and exciting term of gardening. This term we will be doing the following:-

26th Feb
Week 1. A general tidying the ks1 & ks2 gardens. Remove any dead plants & seed heads, harvest any crops and general weeding. Fill poly tunnel beds with more compost. Deciding on our Appetite for Action Principles.

5th March
Week 2. Start to propagate new seeds. Harvest any crops. Clean seed trays, collect pea sticks. Plant seedlings into poly tunnel. Ks2 garden will need to have grasses removed and propagated as well as deadheading. Updating our Appetite for Action website.

12th March
Week 3. Sow beetroot, early carrots, plant out garlic and onions. Prune apple and pear trees. Finish work in Ks2 garden. Sow sweet peas in toilet rolls. Sow peppers and chillies to be brought home.

19th March
Week 4. Start sowing and propagating flowers for the Ks2 garden. General tidy and clean of tools. Good weed in all gardens. Create bug boxes. View our students Get Growing Measurements.

26th March
Week 5. We will be sowing outside:- spinach, carrots, leeks, spring onions, parsnips. Inside sowing:- outdoor tomatoes, mangetout peas, early potatoes, and radish.

If this is the first time for your child you will need to complete a gardening consent form which can be obtained from the school office.

News
We will be taking part in a project called Appetite for Action this term and we will need your consent. It is a gardening led project which the children will have the opportunity to write articles for our specified schools website link and post photographs of the activities we are doing. We have chosen the Greener Grub Challenge and over the next few weeks we will be asking the children to create their own school profile and create their own Get Growing Action Plan. This project will also be included as part of us going for Green Flag as part of Eco Schools and the Eco warriors from each class will also be involved.

If you have any queries, please contact claire.dwight@ntlworld.com or keep an eye on the new Eco School notice board outside Mrs Watkins office in the Ks1 corridor for further information and news.

OCTOBER 2009

The children had a great Autumn term, planting seeds, plugs and harvesting lots of summer crops. Two of the Broad bean plants will need to come back to school after half term so you will need to look after them until then.

The poly tunnel has been planted with winter lettuce and winter rainbow chard and Ks2 children will be watering this for us over the coming months.

PREVIOUSLY...

KS1 Garden wins Under 12s section of East Anglia in Bloom

Our Gardening club motto is Sow it, Grow it and Eat It.

If you have any questions you would like answer please do not hesitate to contact us via the school or via email.claire.dwight@ntlworld.com

The Objective and purpose behind the garden

Objective: to create a fun and enjoyable Eco area that can be created and maintained by the children of Brampton School to enhance their life experiences whilst giving them enjoyment and fun through learning.

Plan: to create an enclosed area which would contain several raised plant beds to grow vegetables and flowers and an area for pot grown plants and herbs which will be planted and maintained by the children. As inspired by the RHS “Grow Your Own Veg" programme”, "Get your hands dirty" scheme and "year of food and farming" scheme.

A Fifth of all children have never picked fruit and veg and eaten it.
Two thirds of pupils with rural experiences are interested in where their food comes from - only 40% of children who never visit the countryside care where their meals started out.
Hands on experiences don't only provide pupils with a better grasp of where food starts out, it also makes them more likely to want to eat those foods. Studies have shown that children who are given a taste of growing vegetables develop positive appetites for their produce.

Some facts - Research study commissioned by the Year of Food and Farming campaign carried out by Edcoms in July 2007

To know more or to get involved, please Contact Claire Dwight on 01480 352970 mobile 07970 287449 or Melanie Pearson on 01480 413903. You can also email Claire at claire.dwight@ntlworld.com

07/11/08 Eco-garden is a team effort - Hunts Post Article

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