School Grounds
March 11, 2010
November 30, 2009
Can you make a home for an animal?
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Class 2's outdoor learning
October 2, 2009
Sunflower Smiles!
Smiles alround in Windy Winners assembly today. Our winning entries were there for all to see, as was a powerpoint presentaion showing many of the photographs sent in to school since we started our Sunflower competition.
Click the link below to view the presentation from the comfort of your own home!
Well done all!
September 27, 2009
Final Measures
September 23, 2009
Calling all sunflower growers - your time is up!
We shall award the two £10 prizes in our Windy Winners assembly - Fri 2nd October.
This is our normal celebration assembly so I'm afraid there will be no spare space for families - but we'll take plenty of photos for you to view on the website.
Remember the prizes are:-
£10 prize for the tallest sunflower, measured from the soil level to the top of the flower head.
£10 prize for the flower head with the largest diameter.
So... please measure your flowers over the weekend then let me have a final result either at the school office or e-mail to a.firth4@gateshead.org. I don't need photo evidence as a couple of 'Sunflower Judges will come out with their tapes if we have a close call! Any child wanting to bring their sunflower into school ready for the assembly (Oct 2nd) are more than welcome to - it will make a great photo opportunity!
Well done all!
Mr Firth
September 16, 2009
A Late Contender?
September 13, 2009
Super Sunflowers!
This week saw a deluge of enormous sunflower pics come in to school - here are a few of the front runners:-
Megan from Class 10 has a sunflower which after 18 weeks, now stands 220cm tall and the head is 22cm wide!
Hannah in Class 3 has managed to reach 29cm wide and 2m 24cm tall!
September 4, 2009
The 2m barrier has been smashed!
August 27, 2009
Super Gran!
Olivia, Josh, Gemma, William, Daniel and Andrew were clear proud of their first crop and mucked in to help Gran prepare some tasty bites!
Do you have some 'Crop Shots' you wish to share? Perhaps you want to find out more about the 'Growing Spaces' we offer within the school grounds? If so pop in and see us when school reopens or get in touch now by e-mailing me at a.firth4@gateshead.org.
August 13, 2009
Seriously Skyscraping Sunflower!
June 30, 2009
Biggest by Far?
June 22, 2009
Another Wopper!
Miley's Better (see what I did there!)
This Power point slide has the latest sunflower photographs from the Miley household!
How are yours doing?
E-mail your pics to Mr. Firth (address available at the office) or bring in you photographs and we'll scan them in, eventually!
Miley Sunflowers.pptx
June 11, 2009
Sunflower Catch Up!
Open this powerpoint to see how big they are getting!
Sunflower PPT 11.06.09.pptx
April 23, 2009
What would we do without them?
Of course they could not have done it with out the continued good will of Mr Cronnie - our irreplaceable (and we have tried!) Site Manager...
Thanks again to all at Ground Works for your great support!
April 22, 2009
Just Can't Stop!
April 21, 2009
On the Move!
We just need a bit of top up muscle to get it onto its new stand - even the Egyptians would have had trouble rolling it up the KS1 hill!
October 2, 2008
Last Harvest
Once again our Supersonic Soil Shifters have been hard at it!
Having harvested, cleaned and sold what was left of our organic veg (the constant rain ruined much of it) we made a start clearing the weeds, trimming the willow and composting the waste.
The money we earned by selling the veg which wasn't ruined by rain, was just enough money to pay for the bedding plant seeds we plan to grow and sell in the New Year.
So start saving up!
Click the link to read more and see our busy pics...
September 16, 2008
Can We Grow It...

Do you shop at Morrison's?
If you do, or know someone who does, please collect the 'Let's Grow' vouchers and hand them in to the School Office.
Every week I shall update the 'Grow-O-Meter' so you can see how close we are to reaching our target!
July 17, 2008
Inspired Art!
During the last two months all children have been taking a look at the improvements we have made to our school grounds. Digital photography has been used to make slide shows of what we are most proud of and what we would like to address next.

This FANTASTIC piece of art work was done by Ellie in Class 1, to show people what she liked best about our new school dipping platform. Can you spot what she saw?
April 6, 2008
Taking Shape!
Didn't look great did it?

But thanks to a £4000 grant from the Council, we are nearly ready to start planting up our rejuvenated pond.
As you can see we are having a fantastic dipping platform built and when the boards are down we'll be able to get cracking with the pond plants, the bog garden and the wild flowering banks.
We can't wait!
June 28, 2007
Harvest Time!
Forget 'Hammer Time' (ok so I'm old!) at Windy Nook it is 'Harvest Time'!
Last night our Busy Gardeners unearthed our first ever Windy Nook Spuds.
We uncovered the root and cut the leaves off to compost!
Then we dug out our little treasure, rinsed them and then stood proudly over them!
And we still had time to build a cane and net structure to protect our strawberries!
May 8, 2007
Windy Nook Nature Links
Today sixty children from Y5 / 6 have made use of our new gate, giving us access to the wealth of learning opportunities on the Windy Nook Nature Park.
March 29, 2007
They've been at it again!
Those green fingered marvels from Windy Nook have spent another evening grafting away to improve the school grounds. Despite the change in the weather, they worked together to erect the first two sections of our 'Living Willow Fence'.
Come to the KS1 yard and have a look!
