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Thursday 17 December 2015

Barking

Despite the hot weather earlier this week I had 6 enthusiastic  young men from the Boys Class wheelbarrowing bark to put around the hill where the maize maze is. They did a great job and it looks awesome over there. Now we just need the maize to outstrip the weeds!!!

Thanks for your help...



Wednesday 16 December 2015

Onions

In our cooking at Oaklands we use lots of onions so I thought we need to make sure we have lots of them for us to use. Some Year 4 students helped


  • clear a garden bed, 
  • dig it over
  • fill it with compost
  • plant onion seeds 
  • water them.
Hopefully this means we will have lots of onions for us to cook. Thanks for your help.

Chickens Update

The latest update on our chickens is that they are having a Christmas holiday at Mrs McInnes farm out at Rolleston. While they are away some Year 4 students helped me to

  • rake all the green waste out of the enclosure
  • dig over the ground
  • plant peas, silver beet and other green

When we have chickens again next year they will have lots of nice greens to eat.

Thanks for your help Room 12


Lions Environment Award

Congratulations to Oakland School for getting 3rd in the Lions Environment Award. We received a $50 prize which will be spent on our School Garden.

Also a big well done to Alex and Victor who escorted the judge around the school. She made special mention of how well they shared our school with her.



Monday 7 December 2015

Gala

On Friday night the Garden to Table programme had a table selling compost from Living Earth, gardening gloves and some swan plants. I had some of the senior boys from the Gardening Club help me set up. We put up lots of information about how the programme works so that we were able to show what we do to gala visitors.

Thanks to all the people that came and spoke to me about how GTT operates at Oaklands. It was great talking to you all.


Thursday 3 December 2015

McGregors Poppies

The Year 3 students all received a packet of poppy seeds today as Christmas holiday homework for them. They will be doing a lot of the gardening next year so this is an incentive for them to get their hands in the dirt over the Christmas break. There are some students who are planning on planting their poppies in a tyre. Someone else has got space at Grandmas. Hopefully we will get some photos next year of these beautiful flower beds.

Thanks to McGregors for their support of our gardens!!





School Gardens Show

This is the date to save in your diary. 11-13 March next year when Oaklands School will have their garden on show at the Woolston Club. The gardening club has got a plan outlined of what we are going to do... Now we just need to get planting!!

Keep watching the blog to stay up to date.

There are some more signs going up around the school advertising the garden show. Keep an eye out around Christchurch to see which other schools are competing.