Mama Beech

I think I need to list all that's going on! It's the only way I am going to keep track! Our RHS Garden Gang has made it to the School Garden Level 3 with help from our Eco club that gives up some of their lunch time on a Tuesday and our Monday afternoon Gardening Gang. Between them all the poly tunnel is brimming with seeds beginning to burst into tiny seedlings Our RSPB Big School Birdwatch results are heading into cyberspace. The feeders are clean and full, the bird boxes have twigs and grasses near by to aid nest building, and access to clean water is solved! We have made our very first bat box! We need lots more - and then a very, VERY long ladder... There is an area perfect for a bats that we'd like to enhance The Junior Forester Groups are awaiting the delivery of the Woodland Trust trees next month so they can experience planting trees along with planting seeds and willow whips Our Year 1 Forest Schoolers had their very first Forest School Campfire. They had s...

I spent 25 years working with a three term education system so I still get confused by my shift into 6 terms with no 'half terms'. This doesn't make much difference at all to day-to-day outdoor learning, just to my labelling of chunks of the year! The biggest impact it has this week is the realisation that we're speeding towards the end of Term 3, The February (half term) week off of school starts on Valentines Evening and marks the half way point through this academic year.  Snowdrops and daffodils are beginning to emerge, 2020 is a month old! We're half way there! (yes I can hear Bon Jovi in my head when I type that!) So much has happened yet there is so much yet to come too! It's a mix between incredulity that five and a half months has sped by and amazement that in another five and a half months we will be enjoying the Summer Holidays. Mama Beech is stoical about it all, as the shells of long discarded Beech nuts crunch underfoot I can see new growth ...