Good evening everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the slightly milder weather. This week, Japan Island Group have been spending lots of time in Copping’s Corner. We used this as an opportunity to learning about plants and the benefits of gardening to our mental and physical wellbeing. I wanted to share with the class how much joy can be found in small tasks, such as weeding a raised bed or smelling the wonderful leaves and flowers growing in our garden.
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- Aaliyah helped brilliantly to clear up!
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- The strawberry bed after it was weeded.
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- The strawberry bed after it was weeded.
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- David helped to clear the weeds growing between the paving stones
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- We cleared the fallen leaves from around the stairs.
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- Our new mint bed, decorated with the stones by the Key Worker group.
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- Cleaning the corner of Copping’s Corner
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- Our strawberry and raspberry beds, now easily accessible.
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- The clearing and cleaning took a long time!
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- Pulling the weeds out of this raised bed, ready for planting.
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- Pulling the weeds out of the pea raised bed
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- We spent a lot of time clearing leaves and weeds from around the raised beds.
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- Tidying up the fallen bark.
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- We enjoyed using litter pickers to help us.
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- This is the next corner we are hoping to start on.
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- Posing next to our hard work.
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- We cleared all the leaves and weeds out of this area too.
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- Our new sensory raised bed.
We also spent a lot of time planting a new sensory raised bed. We planted some varieties of mint leaves, a cut of buddleia, some unidentified (but lovely smelling) herbs and lots of bulbs.
We had a lovely day. We spoke about the importance of plants for our health and for the health of our planet. Some of us knew about global warming and pollution and we shared how important plants are for helping our planet to heal.
I hope all the children who attended school today had a lovely time- I know I did!
One last question: we were unable to identify this plant. Please e-mail me if you know what this plant is so we know if it is well suited to wear it has sprung up!
Miss Muncey