Time to Celebrate!!

We were really thrilled to see this news story about the school, acknowledging that they have successfully achieved their Eco Schools Silver Award! The children were photographed in the meadow looking very happy! Please click the link below to see the full report!

Southbourne in the Chichester Observer

Also, big congratulations to the school for achieving a 'good' result in their latest Ofsted inspection. We loved that the meadow got a mention!

'Pupils learn to appreciate the importance of encouraging local wildlife and plants through initiatives such as the school meadow project.'

We're back!

Guess who's back! Our final school experience placement is now officially over, so it is now time to get back into the meadow project and get it finished!

On Thursday 29th March, Lizzie and Natasha decided to pop by the school and see how the meadow was doing. Lizzie had been growing a lot of flowers for the meadow for months at home and decided it was about time to transport them to the school as they were starting to grow and take over her garden. The car was full!!

On arrival to the school, we used Mr Wileman's trusty trolley to get all of the flowers over to the meadow. It was then time for the planting to begin. We had placed all of the flowers around the borders of the pathways so that the whole meadow would eventually (hopefully!!) be covered in bright flowers!

After planting all of the flowers, we decided that the grass was growing more sparse than we had hoped... We are hoping that this is to do with it being so cold and recently having snow, however just in case we scattered some more seed over the area to help give the grass and wildflower a bit of a boost. Hopefully next time we visit, things will have started to make greater progress!

We are all looking forward to getting back into the project and adding the finishing touches! The tree bench will hopefully be getting installed shortly and we will be able to make a start of creating wind chimes and bird feeders.

Half Term Visit

On Friday 16th February, we all decided that it would be a good idea to head back to the meadow to check up on how the growing process was going.

Natasha had been busy at home planting and growing the crocus bulbs that had been donated by the EcoWarriors at school and they were ready to be planted in the meadow. We decided to plant these on the entrance path so that they could be easily seen and make a nice bright welcome.

Honestly, we all felt a little worried about the lack of growth that was happening as the meadow had been left for a while and not a lot seemed to be happening. Fingers crossed on our next visit things will have started to bloom and we can give it one final push before we reach the end of our project!