We are so excited at Sandfield. Thanks to Roots & Shoots we worked with our key Stage 1 children in year 1 and 2. Part of their science is to learn about plants that grow from seeds and bulbs. At the beginning of December, we were able to do a socially distance lesson on bulbs for all the […]
*Steep Eco Garden Year six in 2018 started this project by designing the garden as a competition, however they came up with some great ideas so decided to combine them and come up with the plan on page 2, this year group also donated the first initial £140 towards the project. The only other funding […]
Greatham nursery already has a pond area along with quite a few trees in their back play area, but the nursery would love to create a wild area with wildflowers, a log roll and a bug hotel at the front of the nursery to encourage more wildlife into the green areas. This way the children would be able to watch and learn […]
Liphook would use the grant money for their forest school activities, to enhance the children’s understanding of outdoor play. For this, they would need to buy more equipment for the round house area where along with many other activities, they create fire pits. Liphook will be using the grant to fund the purchase of a range of […]
Hollycombe is set in the rolling Sussex downs so is already very rural but would love to plant some more trees in the back field area where the children play. The school is in discussions with a parent who is a horticulturalist about which type of trees would be best to plant. Hollycombe is also having […]
Mad Hatter’s is using the grant money to encourage more hedgehogs into the children’s play area. Mrs Chiverton would like to plant more hedgerow and a couple of willow trees to make a willow tunnel. Barry, Mrs Chiverton’s husband, will build a hedgehog house (to save cost) and if any money was to be left over they would add more […]
The Roots & Shoots Club at TASIS was excited to receive a grant from the Disney Conservation Fund. We are lucky at our school to have a large campus full of trees, grass and plants. Our club members have done many projects in the past, including building a wildlife pond in our garden, constructing an […]
* The Wellbeing Garden at East Coast College Foundation has been given an area of the grassy quad to call our own and students have decided they would like to benefit people, the environment and animals in the design and content of the Wellbeing Garden. We purchased the following things: 4 fruit trees at a cost of approximately […]
* Our Jubilee Garden As the school celebrates its sixtieth year of education, we are proud this coincides with Dr Jane’s jubilee anniversary of the publication of her 1960 study of wild chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania was a breakthrough in primate research. What better way than creating an area where teachers can easily […]
The 8th March was a day of mixed emotions for all, pupils and staff alike. It had been so strange through these unprecedented times, with only a few children regularly in the classrooms and zoom lessons for those children that were at home. Now we were all back together again, but for some this was […]
