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The students have also come up with some other ideas to raise
money for the garden and were keen to help in any way
they could. We are very proud of the way they have all
thrown themselves into the gardening each week and into the efforts to
provide more funding for the future work of the garden and it has been
lovely working alongside them to not only develop their gardening skills but
also to get them thinking about several financial aspects of life from the cost of
everyday items and entire projects to ways that they have take responsibility
for funding something they enjoy. With this in mind, the students who attend have
been carrying out their own individual fundraising projects from sponsored silences
and bike rides to selling cakes and lemonade to other students. We also all worked
together to turn the Learning Plaza into a games room for one lunchtime where
staff and students could pay £1 to come in and enjoy mariokart, dance mats and a whole
range of board games and other fun ways to pass their lunchtime! The event was so successful
we are already looking at how we can provide more lunchtimes of games for students in the future!
All the pupils involved in the Gardening Club this learning cycle deserve a massive well done and a pat on
the back for their enthusiasm, their professionalism and their endeavour throughout these enrichment
sessions and even giving up their own time to get involved in what we've been doing! We gave each one a
Gardening Club certificate to recognise how well we feel they have done and we were pleased to see that
many of them were quite rightly very proud of what they had achieved!
We look forward to more gardening in the next academic year!