Wellbeing Wednesday – Forest School

In our Wellbeing Wednesday sessions today thoughts already turned to Spring! As part of our on-going garden project this year to renovate and transform our garden area into an allotment space for growing food to use in Forest School and Food Tech, both groups were tasked with jobs that helped prepare for the longer days in a few months. Children in the first group carried out a site inspection and found a lot of litter and pieces of wood lying around. They quickly got on top of this and worked together to clear the site which made it safer and a more pleasant space to be in. Next, the helped Mr Gamble sift through some homemade compost and move it to a new area. Children had to spot bindweed roots, plastic and any other bits we didn’t want in the compost and removed them. The older pupils learnt how to take hardwood cutting from blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes. Children were given an instruction sheet with step by step instructions on which they had to follow. They used secateurs really well to take cuttings and were amazed that these would root and grow into fruit bearing bushes within a year or two. They potted them up and left them for nature to do the rest. We look forward to seeing them grow in the Spring!