If you can spare an hour every week, or every other week, we’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for someone who can talk about the garden, maybe plant some seeds with the children and carry out a bit of garden maintenance – cutting back and weeding nothing too strenuous!
If this is of interest, please pop in or email Emma Summersgill. Many thanks.
Every Monday, two groups of children (of all ages and sizes!) spend quality time in our nursery garden.
Under the careful guidance of our maintenance manager and all-round Superstar, Warren, the children are able to try out a range of green-fingered activities.
[pb_blockquote] So far, they’ve sown lots of vegetable and wildflower seeds into trays, which hopefully will start to sprout soon. They’ve also planted an apple tree and some sweet-smelling honeysuckle plants.[/pb_blockquote]
We can already see the fruits of the children’s hard work from last year – a big sunny patch of yellow daffodils!
It’s great that the children are able to get out into the garden more – let’s hope the warmer weather continues.
Sowing our seeds
Adding the compost
[pb_blockquote]Although lots of fun, outside is muddy, especially at this time of year. Please ensure your child (or children) has their coat and wellies at nursery as they will all have a chance to participate in garden group at some point.[/pb_blockquote]
Under the guidance of green-fingered helper, Warren, the gardening group will take place on a Monday and involve small groups of children from all rooms. As the weather improves (fingers crossed!) this will hopefully spread to more days in the nursery garden throughout the week.
The children will be able to do lots of activities, starting with tidying up old plants, sowing seeds in propagator trays and planting climbing plants and shrubs.
[pb_blockquote]As well as getting hands on with planting, Warren will talk to the children about the wildlife and help them to identify various local birds, creatures and creepy crawlies – given our waterside location we are spoilt for things to see![/pb_blockquote]
We also have lots of other exciting projects planned for the nursery garden, including, creating a mini pond, den making and planting vegetables.
Warren will shortly undertake his RBWM Forest School training, so no doubt will come back brimming with plenty more imaginative outdoor play ideas for the children to enjoy too.
We’ll keep you posted on our garden projects as they happen – check back here for latest news.