Sue Heal, the headteacher at St Mary’s Primary School Timsbury is appealing for gardening help to ensure that an exciting project involving pupils at the school and the Timsbury Allotment holders continues to prosper. The Allotment group have been working with Year Six for the last two years and have supported them in growing a wide range of vegetables.
Two new vegetable beds have been constructed in the environment area as the school works to earn the “Food for ife” award. This has created a lot more room for growing fruits and vegetables which it is hoped to use to supply the school kitchen during the summer months.
Miss Heal said, “ To ensure the sustainability of this project the plan is for Bill Pearce and members of the Timsbury Allotment Society to work in an advisory capacity, visiting school once a month to liaise with pupils and adult volunteers and help create a work schedule for the next month. Pupils supervised by adult volunteers from the school would then tend the beds on a weekly basis. The allotment group have devised a planting plan to provide produce through the spring, summer and autumn of 2010 and all that is now needed are willing adult volunteers who require no expertise but just an interest in gardening”.
The school are keen to get things under way as soon as possible so that Enhanced CRB clearance can be obtained before the planting season begins at the end of February.
Bill Pearce, Chairman of the Allotments group said, “We are delighted to continue our close working relationship with the school and to assist with the ‘grow your own’ part of the curriculum. There is a fairly limited budget for running the scheme and we would appreciate any donation of tools and other equipment such as seed trays and netting, some plants including soft fruit and rhubarb and some seeds”.
Report by Malcolm Tucker
(September)
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