Garnetbank Garden Club
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Welcome to our Autumn
Newsletter.
We are a
School garden club in a Primary School in the centre of Glasgow. We started the Garden Club two years ago with
no garden and no money. As you can see
from the picture above we have managed to find a space to grow lots of things
in pots and planters! We have also
managed to raise some money for our garden from grants and from cake baking,
always a popular activity with the children.
We meet
twice a week before school and all the children are very enthusiastic about
gardening.
Here are
some reports from our Garden Club members.
Livia’s Report
I love
gardening club because we get to plant all sorts of things. For example, we recently dug up
potatoes. We also do things like weeding
and planting bulbs. Doing this makes our
school look much nicer. We also planted
seeds in the bottom part of juice cartons which we brought in from home; this
is good because we are an Eco School.
Fara’s Report
Garnetbank Primary School is collecting Morrisons’
gardening for schools vouchers for their beautiful school garden. We have lots of plants and trees in the
garden but would like to grow more in a raised timber bed. So far we have 519 vouchers we need 1,400 so
please keep collecting the vouchers and put them in special post box outside
the janitor’s office. The more vouchers
we collect the prettier our school will look.
Woodland Trust
We are
also members of The Woodland Trust and are Nature Detectives. This means that every week we get a nature
challenge and if we complete the challenge we put a sticker on our nature
chart.
Here is Rosie’s
report on a scavenger hunt that
she completed in the half term holiday with her sisters, Poppy and Holly.
I thought
the scavenger hunt was great fun! Some things
were hard to find such as an acorn, two different colours of leaves and the
sound of a nut falling to the ground.
Some things were easy to find, winged seed parachute seed and an oak
leaf.
It was a
sunny autumn day when we went to Palacerigg Country
Park to do the hunt. The weather made it
even more fun. (A big
thank you to Holly, Rosie and Poppy’s Mum and Dad for taking them on the
scavenger hunt!).
We also
had to colour in pictures of fungi for one of our challenges, here are Eli’s lovely
pictures.
Garden Club interviews
Claire
and Florrie interviewed each other about joining the
Garden Club this year.
Florrie’s interview with Claire.
Q. Do you like gardening club?
A. Yes,
it is really fun.
Q. Do you like the garden?
A. Yes,
but it could be neater!
Q. What could we change in the
garden?
A. Maybe glam up some pots or something.
Q. What are you looking forward to doing?
A. Planting more and having fun and
competitions.
Q. Are you excited about garden club?
A. Yes, especially the competitions.
Q. What have you been doing recently?
A. We
have been harvesting and planting.
Q. Have you been on the website? (www.garnetbankgardenclub.ik.org)
A. Once, but not recently.
Q. What would you do to improve the website?
A. I don’t know since I haven’t been on it much!
Q. What would you change?
A. Probably put more information on it and more
pictures.
Q. Why did you join garden club?
A. Well, I enjoy gardening at home so when I got
the chance to join I took it.
Claire’s interview with Florrie
Q. Do you like gardening club?
A. Yes, it’s fab.
Q. Do you like the garden?
A. Yes, but I think we could change the layout
of it.
Q. What could we change in the garden.
A. Maybe put more advertisements up about it.
Q. What are you looking forward to doing?
A. Competitions in Edinburgh (We are hoping to
take part in The Pallet competition at Gardening Scotland 2011).
Q. Are you excited about garden club?
A. Yes, and I hope it
all goes well.
Q. What have you been doing recently?
A. We have been planting seeds and eating
raspberries.
Q. Have you been on the website?
A. Yes, I posted a comment!
Q. What would you do to improve the website?
A. Say more about what we’re planting.
Q. What would you change?
A. Add in more things about what we are doing.
Q. Why did you join garden club?
A. Because everybody who had been already said
it was great!!!
Well done to everyone who has written in the newsletter. We hope you enjoyed reading it and we will be writing another newsletter next month.
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