We recently entered an exciting ‘Mealbarrow’ competition that was set up by Sustainable Schools Leicester. The competition involved planning a three-course meal, and growing at least five of the ingredients in a wheelbarrow. The Eco Team designed a tasty menu, and they planted up a wheelbarrow with baby corn, strawberries, spinach, carrots and peppers. They […]
In celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee, we organised a ‘sensational salad’ event, and a Jubilee picnic on Friday 27thMay. As part of the Leicester City Council ‘Big Green Month’, we have been growing herbs in school. The children used these herbs to make salads. We invited parents to come into school to purchase a salad […]
This term, we were very excited to receive over 400 trees from The Woodland Trust. Every child in school had the opportunity to plant a tree. Countrywide kindly donated their time to pre-dig holes, ready for the children to plant their trees. They had a great time planting the trees on our school grounds. We […]
Hallam Fields Primary School in Birstall joined Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible today. You can see where Hallam Fields Primary School is on a map and read about their local environment here.