Moorlands Primary School

ECOgarden News

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  • Published 18/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    Carrots, potatoes and onions

    Our gardening club have really been looking after the potatoes, onions and carrots they planted in Spring. Here are our carrots, just starting to show!
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  • Published 11/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    New herbs

    Today some of Meteors planted new herbs, very kindly donated by one of our Reception grandmas. Many thanks to her for these. We hope they will be used next week by the kitchen team in our dinners!
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  • Published 28/03/17, by Louise Swift
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    Reception classes plant potatoes

    All 3 YR classes have now planted potatoes. Watch out for updates as they grow!
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  • Published 16/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    Sowing seeds

    Meteors today sowed leek, onion and pea seeds and some members kindly took them home to look after for the holidays.
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  • Published 07/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    Introducing our new fruit trees

    Our new fruit trees might just be twigs now, but  when we are the mummies and daddies bringing our children to school, we will be able to tell them that we were there on Day One, and our little trees will grow lovely fruit for generations of school dinners. Here are our Day One photos:
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  • Published 07/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    The Big Dig

    Today we were delighted to welcome 1 mum, 1 dad, 1 governor, 2 grandads, 1 grandma and 1 great grandad to help us with our Big Dig!! Our adult volunteers worked really hard for us. Read on to find out what we achieved!                   
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  • Published 20/10/16, by Louise Swift
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    Spring onion seeds planted

    This week Meteors have sown spring onion seeds which will begin to grow over winter and be ready to harvest from March. We'll add a photo when we see the shoots.
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  • Published 11/10/16, by Louise Swift
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    Weeding

    Meteors went out on Thursday and had a good go at the horrible weeds in our raised beds. They are now ready for winter. Read on to see what's still growing...
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  • Published 20/09/16, by Louise Swift
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    Herb garden gone mad!

    Apart from the photo being upside down (not sure why!!), our herb garden is growing ridiculously at the moment! The cooks are using our mint, chives and others on a regular basis, but everything is growing so well we just can't keep up! Find out below what we're going to do about it...
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  • Published 20/09/16, by Louise Swift
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    Tomatoes!

    Look what's grown over the summer holidays!!
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  • Published 16/06/16, by Louise Swift
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    Our mint being used

    Our herb garden is being used regularly now, and as the mint was starting to take over, the kitchen team today used lots of it in a delicious minty relish to go with our meat and potato pie.
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  • Published 05/05/16, by Louise Swift
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    Up she comes!

    Our cavalo nero has long-since gone to seed. Today it was time to pull it up!  We felt like characters from 'The Enormous Turnip' as we all pulled it out of the ground.
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