Biodiversity
Biodiversity is about caring for all plants, animals and insects.
The current situation:
- The work of the school’s Ground Staff already keeps the environment in mind:
- They avoid blanket pesticide spraying and use organic soil-feeding composts/mulches rather than synthetic plant fertilisers
- They are migrating to battery power kit and creating more permanent planting schemes
- Year Three children look for seeds around the school grounds and at home when learning about seed dispersal
- Year Five children look around the school grounds looking for different plant species
- Year Three’s Nature Club made their own plant pots, planted seeds, and went on a bug hunt
- Year Five took part in ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ as part of their Science work on life cycles
- We have planted new trees along the A6 to help protect air quality
- Animal Club is run in the Senior School
- Increase planting around the school of wildlife-encouraging plants
- We have installed habitats around the school for a range of animals, including birds, bats, and hedgehogs
- We have made fat ball bird feeders which have been put up around the school grounds
- Meet with Grounds staff to discuss a wildlife area near the new Nursery building
- Planted trees donated by the woodland trust for the Queen’s Jubilee
- The Junior School has run a competition to design a wildlife friendly space in the school’s courtyard
- We took part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Bird Watch 2023
Our plans:
- Run a competition to build a bug house
- Run a Gardening Club in the Summer term
- Take part in ‘What’s under your feet’
- Sunflower growing competition
- Harvest seeds from flowers grown at school to make seed paper which can be given to the local community
What could be done at home:
- Create habitats for wildlife in gardens
- Use this recipe to create a fat cake for birds
- Follow what we are doing at school
- Keep areas in your gardens which are ‘wild’ – plant bee friendly plants, build bug houses/put up boxes.