Wow, what we’ve achieved this year at St. Thomas More Catholic School, the planted fruit trees have settled in well, the garden looks healthy and lush and the newly built shade house is well in use.

In term four we pimped up an old garden bench, the kids painted it in bright colours and wrote little quotes on it, it is placed under a tree and we named it our garden mindfulness bench.

We had several great crops of winter vegetables, it seemed like our supply would never stop.

After all these rainy days the garden has been like a jungle, it needed a good tidy and all the year 5/6 class came out and we gave it a good make over.

The freshly cleaned out garden boxes have been planted with seedlings which we have grown from seeds in our new shade house all ready to go for a good summer crop.

The highlight and a nice treat towards the end of term four was making “ summer chocolate” the girls have collected eatable flowers, we’ve melted the chocolate, sprinkled flower petals over it and let it cool off in the fridge, it was a lovely treat to share with the whole class.

On our very last gardening day the kids went for a potato hunt, yes, this is just as exiting as finding Easter eggs, what an excitement once they found so many potatoes, exactly 111 !

it was a great way to finish our very last day in 2022.