Christmas Newsletter

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Congratulations to Florrie and Claire who are the new Garden Club treasurers.  They are taking over from Holly, who was the chief treasurer and Talitha her assistant.

They did a great job for the last two years but have now gone to secondary school.

We are trying to raise enough money to hire a bus to take us to Edinburgh  for two days in June to take part in Gardening Scotland 2011.

We have already been busy making Christmas decorations to sell at school as you can read in these reports.

 

 

Ajjima’s report.

I enjoyed making Christmas decorations because it was fun and I liked all the colours that were there.  Next year I am looking forward to planting seeds and harvesting.

Eli’s report.

I enjoyed painting the Christmas decorations because I love to paint.  I am looking forward to doing more things like this next year.

Meryem’s report

I enjoyed cutting out different shapes to make Christmas decorations and then painting them.  I am looking forward to seeing the bulbs flowering in spring and to finish building a bird house.

Flori’s report.

I liked making the Christmas tree hanging decorations and the Christmas bowls.  It was fun to do arty things and it’s good because we make money out of it so maybe we can do the gardening competition. 

I am looking forward to the gardening competition because it is good to show people what we can do and it will be great fun!

Morrison’s vouchers.

We now have enough Morrisons’ vouchers to get a raised timber bed, a wheelbarrow, an apple tree and a fork to dig the garden.  A huge thank you to everyone that helped us to collect the vouchers.

RHS Gardening for Schools- Level 5.

We have now reached Level 5 of the RHS Gardening for Schools benchmark scheme.  This is the top level that schools can reach.  Someone from the RHS will come out to our school in the spring and present us with a plaque.  You can read about our achievement on the RHS School Gardening website http://apps.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardening/article.aspa?PageId=991

 

 

School Sensory Challenge.

We are going to take part in a competition to design a sensory garden for our school playground.  The winning design will be made into a garden at the school.  We thought it would be nice to design a garden that could be made in our new timber raised bed from Morissons.

Tayyabba’s report

In Garden Club I enjoyed making cakes and selling them to people at the parents evening.  I like to do baking and to do new things.

In 2011 I am looking forward to planting seeds and seeing the beautiful plants.

 

Ahmed’s report.

I liked making Christmas decorations because I have never done it before.

I am looking forward to going to Edinburgh because I have never been to a flower show.

Claire’s report.

I liked making cakes in the staffroom to sell at Parent’s evening and Christmas decorations for the fair and Christmas tree.  I thought it was fun taking Hannah’s artistic experience and doing something to help the school (raising money).  It was also good to do something inside while the garden was covered in snow and frost.

I am looking forward to planting things in the spring and tending to them as they grow.  I am also really looking forward to Gardening Scotland 2011.

 

 

  

Garnetbank Garden Club would like to wish everyone A Merry Christmas and all the best for 2011.