Appleshaw St Peter’s CofE Primary School Gombe 60 ‘What’s living in Harmony?’ 22nd June 2021 On Tuesday 22nd June, 22 pupils from Beech class visited Harmony Woods to work with an ecologist and learn about simple wildlife surveying techniques. The children spent time surveying birds, pollinators and butterflies and were shown how to use […]
Each month we have been checking on the progress of our home-made compost makers. We measure the height of the materials, the temperature outdoors and the temperature inside the compost makers each month and record them in a shared Google spreadsheet. We have observed the changes and will continue to do this all year. At […]
We have worked with a local contractor to transform a once inaccessible area of our site into a beautiful sensory garden. The children love it as a place for learning and quiet.
Year 5 and 6 have made mini composters and will be taking measurements such as temperature and depth of material to observe changes over the year.
Year 2 and 3 pupils are investigating the rate of decomposition of different materials over time. They have placed a variety of objects in a corner of the schools grounds and are observing them regularly to see what happens!
Year 2 pupils recently visited Harmony Wood in Andover to plant out the tree whips we have been looking after for the last year. We are part of the core group of schools working with Andover Tress United (https://www.andovertrees.org.uk/)to create a community woodland and environmental studies resource.
As part of our work to support Andover Trees United we have planted new tree whips into our Nursery Bed. Year 6 pupils helped Year 1 plant out in preparation for planting at Harmony Wood in Andover next November.
Appleshaw Green Ambassadors is a weekly lunchtime club run by children in Years 4 and 6 for children in Year 2. Club Leaders Dottie, Daisy and Emma say: “We started the club because we were concerned about how many animals were endangered. It all began when one lunchtime we were playing Top Trumps ‘Predators’. We put the cards in […]
We have been working with Andover Trees United (ATU) for 5 years. Every year we receive trees which pupils plant in our school tree nursery bed, we look after them across the year and dig them up a year later to plant in Andover’s new community woodland: Harmony Woods. We ensure that the soil in […]
This year we have a brand new club STEM Citizen Science at Ringwood School and together we explore the online platform of Zooniverse that hosts a variety of international projects that any member of the public can help in. The club kicked off with a fantastic first project – Chimp and See – and together […]
