Secret Garden Fundraising

Can your family help us fundraise for the Secret Garden?

John Key in the Secret Garden

John Key visited the Secret Garden and talked to a few students about their garden. He talked to them about why they like having their own garden.

People talked to him about worm pee and how it helps the garden - we gave him  a bottle of worm pee. He had a piece of lettuce and talked to special visitors who help and try very hard to support the Secret Garden.

By Rosie and Ollie

Our Kapa Haka Team welcomes John Key

John Key eats lettuce in The Secret Garden.

Enviro Schools Tree Planting Celebration

If you are coming to the PTA Family Fun Night on Thursday, then roll on up to the Secret Garden at 5.30pm for a special celebration of what we have already achieved as an Enviro School.

Visit the Secret Garden

Check out some of our class visiting the Secret Garden today at lunch time.  As you can see, the garden is looking amazing.  We couldn't count all the monarch caterpillars on the plants - there were too many.

Make sure you pop down to check it all out.  I wonder who thinks they can count all those stripy wriggly caterpillars?

Visit the ECO Team Website. 

Secret Garden Party

The Spring Garden Party

At the Springston Community Secret Garden 

on the 20^th of October from 11 am until 2 pm

Bring your family along to the first ever Spring Garden Party at the community garden in Springston. We aim to raise awareness of the garden, promote its benefits for the community and create a fun-filled event for primary school students and Springston community members.

There will be:

·     A hat competition (Which primary student can make the best spring themed hat before the event?)
A letter hunt challenge
An opportunity for community members to swap plants
And free BBQ sausages

Spud in a Bucket

Have you been to the office to get your very own spud and bucket?  Get it planted as soon as possible to gain the most growth.  We will be checking out the spuds on Picnic Day.

There will be prizes for the most spuds, the biggest spud and the ugliest spud.

Make sure you get yours growing and all the money raised goes to The Secret Garden so we can begin some more cool projects.

Tui Garden Challenge - vote for us!

Check out the blog posts from schools in the Tui Challenge.  Make sure you write us comments and vote for our posts.  Is there any other learning in the garden that you would like to post a blog about in the comepetition?

Remember - vote for us using the big tick!
Click here to visit the blog posts.

Secret Garden Harvest

Hi I am Harriet and I have been at the Secret Garden. I harvested two  cauliflower, one broccoli and a cabbage.

I love the secret garden because you get to do really cool stuff.

Springston Secret Garden Open Day

Come along to the Secret Garden at 2.30pm on Monday 10th June to check out the amazing things that have been happening.

The Allottment Kids and the Choice and Challenge Kids will be there to share their progress but we would love to see any visitors from the Springston School families and wider community.

 We might even have a nibble from the garden to share!

Making Scarecrows

Zanada plans to make a number of scarecrows in Term Two.  One with the Green Fingers (Secret Garden Team), another with the Juniors in Choice and Challenge and a third as an ECO Challenge with anyone who is interested.

Bring along a hat, long sleeved shirt, some trousers or even a 'bus vest' for your scarecrow.  Remember that you will not get these things back but they are a donation to the Secret Garden.  What creative things might your scarecrow need? (apron, hat, walking cane, gloves, carrot...)

There will be a school challenge to name these scarecrows.  Make sure you get involved, help make a scarecrow,  get to know them and select the best name.

Happy harvest - from my garden.

I visited The Secret Garden this morning and everything has been GROWING!  We will have to harvest the last of the allotments then dig them all over and begin again.  You should have seen the weeds!

Yesterday I took my Christmas present out into the garden and picked lots of produce.  Can you recognise anything in my basket?  I wonder how many different plants we can name in comments below.  Isabella, I know you are watching and will be the first to respond.  Who else is checking out the blog before school?

Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what this type of basket is called!

Secret Garden Club

Most of our class spent time in the Secret Garden on Friday morning.  We also went back over at lunchtime.  We are working very hard to get rid of the weeds and prepare our gardens for the competition inspection at the beginning of December.  This week we planted parsley and flying saucer courgettes.

Watch out to see what we are harvesting each week.  We are expecting some strawberries and spinach soon.

Setting up the worm farms

Wow - we have five worm farms to set up next week and we need to so some research so we know how to do it.




Need:
1.  Rounds of cardboard
2.  Rounds of carpet
3.  Newspapers
4.  Soil
5.  Worms
6.  Water

We need to find out what worms eat so we can make some food collection buckets.  Our worms will need feeding each day we go over to the garden.  Write comment to tell us what they like to eat.

The Secret Garden Club

The Secret Garden Club had its first meeting today.  The executive (leaders) have been appointed from Year 6 - Anja, Anna, Macaulay, Jack G and Cameron.  There will be 'Feed and Meet' at 12 on Friday next, where we will plan the action for the next week, but start collecting seeds and plants for your winter crops like broad beans, cabbages or broccoli.

1.  Allotments were allocated to Garden Club Teams
2.  Bricks were placed to show individual gardens
2.  Weeding has begun

There are still five allotments available to senior students, but you must be serious and ready for work at lunch times.  Check in with the Room 9 leaders and talk to Allana if you are up for the challenge.

I will be available to go gardening second lunch this Friday, so bring your gummies and a label for your spot.

Leave a comment with your ideas about what we could do next in our Secret Garden.

Springston Secret Garden

We went with Sandy to check out how our garden is growing. The corn was huge and the artichokes were mosters. Can you see us hiding?  

Sandy is helping us roast the artichokes and we will taste them next lunch time.