Our pond area was overgrown and run-down. There were no plants in the pond, it was full of leaves and various bits of rubbish. This year, we started by cleaning out the pond, removing all the algae and leaves. We have also removed various bits of stationary such as: pens, whiteboard pens and glue sticks. […]
The chicks have hatched! The children are so excited; they have been watching closely for signs of the little fluffy bundles of life breaking free from their shells to join us at Goat Lees. As you can see from the photos below, we have been very successful and have managed to hatch 9 of the […]
The children at my Spring Term After School Club at Liphook Infant School began the year by learning about tree conservation and winter birds in a creative manner. Coincidentally, the new incredible documentary series, The Green Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, which also started at the beginning of January, is all about trees and […]
Christmas and New Year’s break seem a long time ago now and we have quickly got back into the swing of school life. Our Roots & Shoots Afterschool Club has started again and we have two mini projects on the go; improving our bird watching area with a ‘Bird Cafe’, and making hedgehog houses in […]
We have started the pond regeneration project with St Luke’s Primary school In Winton, Bournemouth and on day one we have found six smooth newts!
We are kicking off our new year at Bournemouth University with the launch of our JGI St Luke’s Primary School pond regeneration project. The St Luke’s pond is a bit of a mess and so the plan is to redo it to create a wildlife pond and a small fish pond. The children did a […]
The Wellbeing Garden was opened by HRH the Princess Royal on 16th December 2021. She spoke to the students who had worked on the project and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the garden and her visit to Lowestoft. The students were very excited to meet Princess Anne and were very pleased to attend. 12 extra […]
We received our free baby trees from Woodland Trust and planted about 20 around the school grounds We planted a row of silver birch as you walk in the gate. The plan is to do this every year, so we end up with a silver birch mini forest. The trees that were left over we […]
With the outside area growing from strength to strength, and with our newly formed Roots & Shoots Eco Group, we thought it would be a great idea to run a stall at our Christmas Fayre to see if we could raise some money towards more equipment and gardening tools to help maintain our outside area. […]
