Wednesday 27 September 2017

Visiting the School

On Friday 22nd September, as a group we visited the school and had a meeting with the head teacher, Mrs Gasser and teaching assistant, Mrs Buncle, who involved with the school's gardening club. They advised us about their visions and ideas and took us on a tour of the school to show us the field that we are going to be working with. The area was much bigger than we first expected! Mrs Gasser wants the area to be a reflection area for the children that is useable all year round and is providing us with funding from the PTA team of £500. We knew that this amount of money would not be enough to fund the whole project, so we will be organising some fundraising events to help us with affording the resources that we require to make the project the best that it can be.


After we had finished speaking to the headteacher, we decided to go back to the field and get some ideas together about what we want to include. We started by taking photos and measuring the area that we had been given as this would allow us to start researching fencing that could be suitable. We also looked at the types of trees that were in the area and how we could use them within the project.


Receiving Our Project

On Wednesday 13th September, we had a lecture at University and found out that our Making Change Happen Project was going to take place at Southbourne Junior School. Our brief was to set up a meadow area in the school field and complete tasks such as: fencing, sourcing suitable plants and flowers and planting them, creating a bench, pathways and a bug hotel. The school's ultimate aim was to be awarded an eco-school award. We felt excited about this task and were looking forward to visiting the school and getting started!