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. […]
As we move towards the winter months, things are slowing down: plants are dying back and many creatures are thinking about hibernating. We, however, are still busy! We have been cutting back our wild meadow area, clearing out fallen leaves from our wildlife pond, staking our growing saplings and cutting back overgrown trees and bushes. […]
On Tuesday, 21st September, our newly formed Roots & Shoots After School Club celebrated International Day of Peace. We split in to two groups as we wanted to send a message to everyone and also plant some more willow to add to our growing willow shelter in our wild meadow. The first group went scavenging […]
Over terms 5 & 6 of the last acedemic year, we worked hard to encourage bees and butterflies in to our school grounds. The children in Years 1 & 2 learnt about Bees & Pollination for their term’s Topic, building raised flower beds which they planted with wild flower seeds; every day they watered and […]
This small community school of students are punching high above their weight as they strive for a better planet. Here is what they have been up to in the last 18 months in their own words: Our Meadow and Pond area The children and staff have been hard at work on our Year 6 Project […]
Here at Goat Lees we are working hard on our outdoor learning area. Not only have we grown a wild meadow, dug a natural pond, built bird hides from old pallets, planted 10 native trees and 10 hedgerow shrubs for a micro-wood area but we also run our Forest School. We are very lucky to […]
Here at Goat Lees, although we are a small school with only 210 pupils, we all believe the welfare of our planet is everyone’s responsibility. We have many things that we do, day-to-day in school, to help our planet. For instance, every child that attends our school is giving a free re-useable water bottle (to […]
Our Year 6 working hard to plant the trees and shrubs for their micro-wood. Here are so pictures of our children planting the trees; we are looking forward to watching it grow and see what other insects and animals it encourages into our school grounds. The place for our Micro-Wood looks […]
Its has been very exciting for us, here at Goat Lees, as we received a long awaited delivery at the end of April. Way back, before the Covid lockdowns began, we applied for the possibility of being selected to receive some trees and shrubs from the Free Trees for Schools Appeal. The Year 6 pupils […]
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 […]
