Sackville School Eco Club
Highgrove Garden and Wood Yard - Staplehurst
Highgrove Garden centre in Staplehurst have kindly donated their off cuts of wood to Sackville Pupils so that they can construct bird boxes in DT lesson for the Conservation Garden. Mr Wiacek will be leading this project.
Springs first visitor to the Garden
Last Friday saw Sackville Schools first nature visitor to its garden, a lone queen Red-Tailed Bumblebee. Lets hope we see many more in the days and weeks to come.
SACKVILLE SCHOOL CONSERVATION GARDEN
The Sackville School Conservation has got of to a very good start, the team should be very proud of themselves they worked hard on Thursday 12th April. Still lots to do but work will continue at the start of term next week.
Sackville School have already reached Certificate Level 2 for the Royal Horticultural Society Gardening for Schools. Please see certificates below. We are aiming for the Alan Titchmarsh award. Keep gardening sackville.
BIG BIRD WATCH January 2012
Middle of January saw the launch of 'Really Big Schools Bird Watch' run by the RSPB, 16th - 30th January. Mr Perry is heading up this adventure. The school ran the bird watch last year and this is something we will continue to be involved with on an annual basis.
With the help of all the children we can help the RSPB monitor birds in this area and help to conserve the ever decreasing numbers of a lot of British birds such as the House Sparrows, Starlings, Blackbirds, Chaffinches and Robins to name a few. Please use the link below to go onto the RSPB's website and find out information on how you can help.
SACKVILLE SCHOOL CONSERVATION GARDEN
Sackville School Eco club will begin after the Easter Break with the building of the Conservation Garden. This term has already seen the launch of the 'Design Your Fantasy Sackville Garden'. Once the pupils have entered their ideas we can begin to put together a plan for the garden. Aspects of the garden will include areas to attract butterflies, moths, bubble bees, which like the birds, are in decline and at the same time introduce the pupils to a new environment.
This activity will mainly be run by Miss Phelps with the expert help of Mr Perry. Miss Phelps is looking to progress and get the pupils of Sackville School involved in the Royal Horticultural Society's award scheme for Schools. We have a long way to go but hopefully a lot of fun getting there.
All Risk Assessments will be carried out.
Please see below a link to the RHS website for further information:
A big thank you goes out to Hadlow College Plant Nursery for their kind donations of 22 plants to start the conservation garden going. Also to Downderry Lavender - Miss Phelps will be going to collect their donations at the end of April when they are ready.
Below is an attachment for the 'Design a Garden' Competition.
Suggested flowers for bumblebees.pdf