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Wildlife Rangers helping in the Garden

Posted on 19th Mar 202110th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today Mason asked to help out in the garden. We decided to plant the bedding plants in the front garden as it’s looking bare before all the bulbs and wildflowers start coming through. Mason was extremely careful and gently took the plants out of the pots and planted them into the soil.

Mason had a sneaky peek in the cold frame to see how our plants are doing. He noticed the pansies needed thinning and the marigolds are getting stronger.

Our Wildlife Wanderer sowed some Sunflower Seeds along the wall area, we are hoping they will grow very tall and strong.

Look who Jacy found in the garden!!

All the children wanted to have a look but were very scared incase he jumped at us!!

Tracie made a run for it when putting out the bins, she tripped up the step while rushing too fast and nearly fell into the Spider! Scary or what!!

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Happy St Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Posted on 17th Mar 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today we all had a lovely sunny day for our St Patrick’s Celebrations. Sophie’s mum brought in some lovely decorations and fancy dress accessories, the Little Seedlings had fun taking turns wearing them. Even Tracie and Emma had a go!

Emma designed and created these lovely hats and the Little Seedlings enjoyed painting and sticking on some green glitter. We had glitter everywhere all over the tables, our clothes, in the hall, bathroom and all over Alfie!

At one point we thought Alfie was a glittery Leprechaun! Georgia thought he was a green smurf, from the Trolls movie!

The Little Seedlings loved colouring in the masks. Tracie asked the children to choose any pen to colour the face in, but not to colour the eyes as we are cutting them out.

What’s the first part they all coloured? Yes the eyes!

Even the Wildlife Rangers enjoyed taking part before and after school.

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Garden Challenge 2021: February Edition

Posted on 8th Mar 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Tracie and the Seedlings have been working hard sowing seeds ready for planting out in the veg trugs. We have ordered a ton of peat-free compost and look forward to it arriving and getting stuck in filling the trugs.

At half term the Wanderers got stuck in and sowed strawberries, thyme, coriander and peppers.

Jacey from the Wildlife Rangers sowed the cucumbers. Last year we had only two plants survive and gave us about nine good sized cucumbers. This year we want a bumper crop so hoping for good germination, so keeping them under glass.

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Wildlife Rangers Recycling Pots

Posted on 2nd Mar 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Jacey looked in the recycling box and found this Bisto tub. He thought it would be good to use for his Chilli as it needed potting on.

He thinks that as the tub is quite thick, it will last longer than the toilet rolls we usually use. Jacey has put the plastic lid on the bottom to stop the water coming out.

Jacey also thinks when the plant has grown, he could just place the tub into the ground without the plastic lid ensuring the roots don’t get disturbed as the pot should break down and let the roots escape.

Jacey wants to be head gardener so made himself this crown. He decorated it with leaves.

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Wildlife Wanderers and the Garden Classroom

Posted on 22nd Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We have been so busy in the Garden Classroom getting ready for Spring and the good weather.

We started germinating the seeds in the warmth of the house as its so cold outside. In a couple of weeks we can put them in the frame to grow lots of strong roots and harden off before growing outdoors. The children have enjoyed using old milk cartons and juice bottles to sow the seeds in or repot them individually so they can watch the growth on the roots.

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Half Term with the Wonderful Wanderers and Wildlife Rangers

Posted on 21st Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

It was so good to spend extra time with the Rangers this week. We don’t always get time for fun activities after school so we made the most of the week.

The Wildlife Rangers enjoyed potting on their seedlings they sowed a few weeks ago. They are already getting big and strong, before we plant them outside we need to acclimatise them in the cold frames.

The Rangers especially enjoyed the junk modelling activities and made some lovely creations. Jacy made a sloth as he says he’s ‘obsessed with them!’ Tracie has suggested he do a project on them as he could find out some interesting facts about them.

We talked about the noises they make Jacy shouted out, “Hey Google, what noise does a sloth make?” and Google said “huff, I don’t have a sound for that at the moment, but ask me again as I am learning more and more every day!” This made everyone laugh.

The children went on to ask Google lots of funny questions, “Hey Google, what sound does a pig make? “A pig says, Oink oink, would you like to hear the sound of a horse?” Everyone shouted “Yes please” it was all very funny.

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February Half Term with the Wonderful Wanderers

Posted on 21st Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We had fun this week and it was lovely to see Martha and Ivor. They have grown so much since Christmas. We made the most of the days off packing in lots of activities. Looking forward to seeing them again at Easter.

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Exercise in Lockdown

Posted on 18th Feb 202119th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We all made the most of our hours exercise today in Stanley Park. Jacey made everyone laugh pricking his bottom on a Yucca bush.

The children went on a treasure hunt and they found some Snowdrops, Purple Crocuses, lovely Red Dogwood and a Mugo Pinewood which looked very prickly.

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Recycling and Growing Seeds

Posted on 18th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

It was wet and windy today so we decided to stay indoors to sow our seeds. We used items out of our Recycling bin to fill up with soil and sow the seeds.

Martha found this egg box and said she thought it would be good to sow individual seeds. Ivor said we might be able to see the roots grow too! The children loved the marks the egg box made in the soil.

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Our Chinese Arch

Posted on 17th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

To Celebrate Chinese New Year the Seedlings and Wanderers have all been busy bee’s making pictures to be displayed as an arch. Usually we would go on a trip to Liverpool’s China Town but due to the lockdown we had to bring the arch to us.

The children worked so hard and this is our amazing Chinese Arch.

After such a busy morning we were ready for a Chinese feast, Emma and Tracie joined in too! The children tried Chicken Chow Mein, Spring Rolls, Prawn Crackers and some very sticky noodles.