Wow, what a productive day we had on the allotment! The day started with us sitting in the fire pit and talking about the jobs we needed to do that day. The children chose the job they would like to engage in for the morning. One group helped to weed the large bed, the second group helped with planting and water in the polytunnel whilst the last group helped to repair our broken step and start to build new vegetable beds.
The children in the polytunnel were so excited when they realised their marigolds had started to sprout. This began a conversation about why those plants had begun to sprout but others had not. We then discussed how big the plants would grow and what they might look like.
Some children helped to use the saw and hammer to repair a broken piece of step. There were a lot of discussions about what materials and tools we would need. After repairing the step, we moved onto one of our vegetable beds which needed completely renewed. The children were amazing and quickly made a new bed for the lavender plant to live in. Our afternoon saw the children begin to create a new vegetable bed for the large growing space. Their morning tool work had come in very handy. We will have carpenters all round before we know it.
