Four hundred and twenty poppies from all of our children at Gorse Hill.

  During Gardening Club the children have created some amazing, super, scary pumpkins.

Have a look on Halloween Night to get the fright of your life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have grown carrots. potatoes onions beetroot, peppers, and cabbages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks so much to all of you for the positive comments on the planters. The children, and adults involved in transforming the front of our school worked really hard. Looking forward to September for more hard work.

Gardening Gang xx

 

 

                               

On Friday we had a group of volunteers from Lloyds bank come  into school to help us with some gardening.  They very kindly bought some plants, ornaments, herbs and vegetables to brighten up the planters at the front of our school.

All twelve volunteers worked really hard painting, planting and cutting back bushes in the playground. Our Gardening Club took part in the activities throughout the day, working together to improve the look of the school. Fantastic Day!

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

Thanks also to Tesco, Co-op and Bernie’s hairdressers for supporting our raffle.

 

Every Monday from 3:15 to 4:30 and every Monday, Tuesday and Friday lunchtime, a Gardening Club is held outside at the seven planters. We do this to keep the planters healthy and beautiful.

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We have seven large planters, each with it’s own theme:

• Alice in Wonderland
• Oriental Garden
• Fairy Garden
• Tropical Garden
• Cottage Garden
• Wildlife Garden
• Vegetable Garden
  

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What we did…

In the first few weeks, we cleared all the unwanted plants and gave them to Mr Masters to put in the Nursery’s playground so they don’t go to waste. We then planted new plants, added decorations such as; statues,logs, stones, slates and hanging ornaments. The planters now look like this:

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Some people from Lloyds bank called ‘Give and gain’ are coming in to:

• Paint our planters green
• Plant some new plants into the nursery’s garden
• Remove large, thorny bushes from the grass area in the Upper junior playground
  

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Thanks to…

• All the children.
• Mrs Newbrook.
• The parents of; Emma Mottershead, Faith Brown, Nathan Newbrook, Kade and Andrew.
• Mrs Westwood

More pictures to follow next week

by  Tanisha

How to make a tree out of newspaper and mod-rock (plaster of Paris bandage).

 

First we scrunched some newspaper up to form the shape of a tree and used tape to hold the shape in place.

Then we soaked the mod-rock in cold water and gently squeezed the excess water out.

Next we wrapped the bandage around the newspaper, starting at the trunk and working our way up to the top of each branch. We then waited for a few minutes for it to dry before adding the next layer.

When the plaster had dried we carefully painted the tree with acrylic paint and some of us decorated it with ivy.

We had lots of fun!

 

 

During Art Club we been studying Van Gogh. We have looked at two of his most famous paintings.

‘Sunflowers and Starry Night’

Van Gogh planned to do a series of a dozen pictures of sunflowers, to decorate his house in Arles. He started each painting at dawn to make sure they were finished within a day, before the sunflowers wilted.

We have created our  ‘Sunflowers’ using acrylic paint on canvas. We have studied Van Gogh’s painting technique and choice of colour to bring our pictures to life. 

Hope you like our Sunflower pictures as much as we do!

Starry Night to follow soon!