Sustainable Living, Growing and Environment
Our climate action plan is leading the way in securing a sustainable future for Arbourthorne Community Primary School. Read more here! Climate Action Plan
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Working with our fantastic community gardener, Mrs Hiley, our children and families and the wider Sheffield community we have transformed our outdoor growing space, creating opportunities and growing delicious produce. We are always looking to invite new volunteers to support us in developing our green spaces. If you would like to get involved, please contact Georgie Mitchell at georgiemitchell@arbourthorne.sheffield.sch.uk We have so many exciting opportunities that take our families outdoors such as: planting, weeding, harvesting, learning and skill sharing. We love using our fire pit and we have a fantastic outdoor classroom for all our learning needs. |
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Horticultural Show September 2023 saw our first Horticultural Show, which we now hold annually, where families of the school were invited to a fun filled extravaganza filled with alpacas, llamas, bouncy castles, sweet treats, fresh produce that was grown by our families, external green-fingered organisations and more to celebrate the return to school and promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
This very successful return to school event every year enables the children can bring anything they have been growing over the Summer. It is a joyous day where everyone can take part in garden related games and win prizes for their efforts in growing.
We were joined this year by Radio Sheffield and they had a wonderful time sharing the love of gardening. Here is a link to the show and we are on the show about halfway through.
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“I used the curly kale that I picked today in my son's tea”
“I am looking forward to trying the chard as we have never had it before! I picked fresh chard, sprouts, rhubarb and kale all from Red Robin House Garden”
Our Growing Space
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We are all very proud of our Growing Space and everything that grows there. We concentrate on growing food for families to take away and for us to use in our Family Feast get togethers. We have grown all sorts including herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, courgettes, beans and artichokes. This year we also had great success with growing melons.
The garden is a space where children and their families come to help, to learn, to feel calm and be purposeful.
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Life Skills Red Robin House Gardening is an integral part of our Life Skills curriculum where all children have regular sessions in the garden completing any jobs that need doing that day. This could be sowing seeds, planting out, weeding, watering, designing - the list goes on.
Curriculum links
There are lots of opportunities for learning in the Growing Space. We have lots of opportunity to take the children outside in different areas of the curriculum in order to bring classroom learning to life. This includes science, geography, art, English, mathematics and PSHCE.
Our beautiful fox sculpture in the garden, created by Patrick Amber, was the inspiration to start growing our own willow to use as a sustainable resource in our Maker Curriculum.
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