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Eco- Action At Its Best! - Eco Flag with Merit was awarded 2024
This is our 11th Eco Flag.
Thank you to all the Eco Committee and Gardening Club for your hard work in helping us to achieve this award.
The Eco Committee/Gardening Team will discuss and plan Eco activities on how as a school we can continue to be involved in the local and global community.
The Gardening Team meet each Wednesday after school.
The Eco Committee meet Thursday Lunch Time
REGULAR ECO TIPS
AUTUMN TERM 2024
Xmas
Xmas is fast approaching and as usual gardening club have been asked to decorate a Xmas tree for our local church. Two sessions later and this is our finished item. Brilliant.
Eco Eco Committee were busy gathering ideas for the new Eco Code that relates to our topics for this year. Lots of interesting ideas were being put down. I can't wait to see the finished code.
We are starting our new Eco Challenges this term. They are Healthy Living, Waste and Litter. The new Eco committee are busy making posters for our Toy Swap on the 29th November 2024. Any child in school that wishes to swap a toy that they have finished with and has all the parts/pieces or hasn't been opened will be able to to do this on the 29th. Any items left over will be donated to a local charity shop.
Welcome to the new gardening club for this half term.
SUMMER TERM 2024
WELL DONE ECO COMMITTEE
A group of children planted the runner beans, put up and secured the canes then watered them well. Perfect.
I asked a few gardeners to look at creating an easier way to water our small patches of plants/veg. They put together an irrigation system that is movable to all areas. Well thought out to those involves.
Gardening Club were looking for the new potatoes we had sown as part of the Grow Your Own Potato (GYOP) scheme organised by Potato House Ltd. Our ratio was 6 to 1. The gardeners each took a handful home for tea.
Our up-cycled shed - We love it and hope you like it too.
On the left is our very old greenhouse which has become unfit for purpose. On the right is an upcycled shed that required some major surgery and which the gardening club diligently painted this week.
Looking great gardening club and a massive thank you Phil, a parent who gave us a mornings free labour and materials to repair the damaged/rotten floor and walls on the inside. A forest school shed to be proud of.
SPRING TERM 2024
Habitats are important on our school grounds - A leaf and hibernaculum habitat.
Gardening club have at last managed to sow a few seeds in our small gardening area.
Gardening club are busy preparing the wildflower seed bed for the summer. Unfortunately we have lots of nettles that are taking over and require removing. This is leaving gaps and so our next plan with the assistance of the Eco committee will be to have a Seed Ball throwing session.
READY, STEADY THROW!
Gardening club has only recently returned due to poor weather and very wet soil. We started by looking and preparing the wildflower seed bed in readiness for the Seed Ball Throwing which is planned for MId April. This area didn't look its best last year and hopefully we can improve it visually and for the wildlife.
POND REVAMPED
This year saw a revamp of the school pond area. Betts Ecology paid us a visit and following their report they cleared the area, removed some of the vegetation so we can pond dip much more easily and placed matting down for safety reasons.
AUTUMN TERM 2023
We offered parents a chance to swap Xmas jumpers that their children had out grown. Thank you to those who participated with this.
Have you met the gardening team 2023 - 2024
RAISING MONEY FOR THE GUIDE DOGS
This term, the Eco committee have been busy planning for a cake sale to raise money for the Guide Dogs. On the day, we were well supported by the children as they enjoyed the delicious cakes provided by families for the children to buy at morning break. At the end of the day parents also purchased any remaining cakes to take home.
Thank you for your support We raised £53.12 on the day
This same day we sent home a small pot for each family and asked if they could afford it, to fill it with any loose change they might have in a pocket or purse.
We raised £ 46.88 with the pots
Thank you for your support in this. In total we raised £100.00
SUMMER TERM 2023
They have been busy reusing old play sand for our path - which was increasingly muddy during very wet spells.
We have sown a variety of seeds in our three raised beds - potato, snap peas, runner beans, carrots and beetroot.
The mindfulness garden is looking very attractive, encouraging quiet moments for reflection or a space for conversation with friends.
We have a habitat of old wood, brambles, and foliage in the mindfulness garden which we decided required some camouflage using our willow. Three of the gardening team set about positioning the willow horizontally and then after a suggestion from another gardener they wove thinner pieces into the structure. A very effective finish
Our small pond sprung a leak in this garden so another job we had was to replace it with another liner. It looks perfect again.
Our very old water butt has had to be replaced and re-sited . This was a challenge but three of the older gardeners put their heads together and after many trial and errors, the water butt has water going into it via supported guttering on material. Brilliant job by all involved.
CREATING MINI COMPOST BINS
Year 3/4 spent an afternoon using their collected materials and preparing the mini composting bins which were going home for use. Worms were found to add to the mixture so they could work their magic.
Munch, munch, munch!
SPRING TERM 2023
A challenge was set for over the Easter Holidays which was to reuse waste materials you would have at home from the recycling bin. Our entries were varied and fun to look at and play with. The Eco Warriors and staff each cast 2 votes. The overall winner won a large Easter Egg with the runners up having little bags of chocolate eggs and just for entering each child had two mini chocolate eggs as well.
Thank you to everyone who took part. 
Meet the Eco Warriors - busy with creating our New Eco Code
Waste Week toy swop - Toy - tastic Pledges was well supported
After an assembly on the upcoming WASTE WEEK and the Toy-Tastic Pledge. A small group of the schools Eco Warriors spent part of lunchtime colouring in the promotional banner. Our chosen day for the toy and book swap is Friday 10th March 2023.
WINTER TERM 2023
Litter picking outside school
Robins this term have been investigating the Polar Regions and this week they challenged themselves to building an Igloo! Not with ice but willow and paper. The effect is stunning and a great use of natural materials.
Click here to see more icy activities
_Mindfulness Garden
The mindfulness garden is a place of beauty where anyone can sit and talk to their friends. It was October 2020 that this vision of a garden started to materialise and today in the small pond we spied, quite by chance a frog. What a delight for the children involved.
From this to the above in two years
The area of wildness below has been protected since early March with green fencing. ( Stopping trampling by feet whilst the plants pick up in strength and vigour. ) The growth has been immense and now is the time to removing the majority of this because it entangles the foliage and doesn't allow the plants to look their best. One small section we have re-planted with wild flower seeds and this requires another couple of weeks to seed and grow so still has protection around it.
Gardening Club have sown marigold seeds in the large white containers and assorted wild flower seeds in some of the smaller pots. The wild flower plants will eventually be planted in the area around the small pond in the mindfulness garden.
Recycling
Recycling is a very important part of school life. These assorted pens and crisp packets will be delivered to collection points so they can be recycled and reused once more.
The battery recycling unit is also due to be emptied.
Creating the Mindfulness Garden
SPRING 2020
The gardening team have started to renovate this unused area so that in the following weeks a mindfulness garden can be created that incorporates a colourful flower bed at the front, a bench which has been offered to us upon completion for the children to enjoy outside lunchtime eating and behind this will be a wildflower bed with a new log pile habitat that is generated from some of the wood which will be removed in this area.
THESE ARE LIVING IN AND AROUND OUR POND - NEWTS 
The belly of a Great Crested Newt - A personal fingerprint
We have 3 species of Newt! It's official: we have Smooth Newts, Greater Crested Newts and Palmate Newts!
OUR PROUDEST MOMENTS !
Malvern Spring Garden Show
WE WERE AWARDED A DISTINCTION!
From deciding to participate in May 2014 as a school and child led we went with the theme 'The Malvern Hills'. above is the end result of many hours in school preparing for this event.
