Our Projects 2007
Because the gardening club at Pilton has been so popular we thought we would get the children involved with other jobs around the school, this should encourage them to take pride in the environment that surrounds them. The school has just had some new planters built, so we have had year 1s planting them up with spring bulbs and colourful winter pansies.
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The children are always keen to learn. |
We encourage the children to do as much as they can by themselves. |
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Here we have planted winter pansies and under planted with dwarf daffodils . |
Although we only take 6 children at a time, we always have plenty of spectators! |
Pilton Infants is very conscious of how our school looks to others and with the support of Mrs Bellamy the Head Teacher we have tried to introduce as much colour all year round as we can. There are many containers and hanging baskets located around the school so we got the children involved in planting these up with winter pansies and under-planted with spring flowering bulbs. At the front of the school there is a memorial tree which the children under planted with a red a white theme throughout summer and winter.
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We created a border for the plants with log roll and filled it full of lovely compost |
We filled the space with pansies, cyclamen and primulas and under planted with daffodil bulbs |
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The children learn about using different plants for different seasons and the effect the elements have on certain plants. click picture for larger image |
The containers around the school are of varying sizes, the children learn how to under plant with bulbs, spacing plants and colour matching different varieties. |
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The Memorial Tree in summer |
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A rainy, damp and very blustery day, but no-one seemed to mind. |
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We now have a fully functioning composting system up and running. The children love peering inside the bins and looking at all the creepy crawlies that live there, we teach them how the composting process works and soon we should be able to show them the finished product (more information on composting here)
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There are always plenty of volunteers for compost making. |
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We are very lucky to have fairly large grounds surrounding our school, so there have been plenty of jobs to get the children involved with. We try to teach them as much as we can about the benefits of re-cycling the green waste we have around the school to make lovely compost for the vegetable garden. There are a lot of trees in the school grounds, which means a lot of leaves. We decided to take advantage of this and make leaf mould which is very beneficial to the structure of the soil.
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Gathering the leaves to make leaf mould. |
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We would love to receive any comments on our gardens you can e-mail SWCAA at swc.aa@virgin.net or e-mail Pilton Infants School at admin@pilton-inf.devon.sch.uk