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Revamping the school garden is an ongoing task. We want to re wild it, rather than have a formal garden or vegetable patch. The big job is getting all the earth turned over so that we can plant it out with grasses and wildflowers. The group also helped out our Supported Learning Provision by painting the bench they built, which allowed us to get it out next to where we are reinstating the pond. All going well, we should have a nice spot in the school grounds that can be booked to allow small groups to use the garden as a quiet area. More seating and furniture is also planned, we do like a bit of pallet craft here at IHS!

A 10km walk to the summit of Cat Law 669m, saw the group surrounded by panoramic views all the way to the sea. Lucky with the weather after a dull and grey weekend. The group saw loads of nature if it crawled, flew, ran or swam it was spotted. The group came across a Curlew's nest so we had the discussion about what to respect at different times of the year. We were also joined by Mrs Gray and her dog Barney, who had the best school day ever. The tree is at the summit of CatLaw a very 'Lonesome Pine'. We also talked about the need to wear long trousers and checking for ticks. A great day was had by all.

The boys are near to gaining their John Muir Award as they continue to discover, explore and conserve their chosen wild place. The group worked together to make bird boxes and feeders today, played a John Muir card game, took snaps on the DSLR of the newly born swan cygnets 🦢 and then placed their wildlife trail cam out to observe deer. Next week, we are meeting with @scottishbadgers 🦡

Busy session in the garden this week! Both groups (John Muir and SLP John Muir) have been hard at work getting the garden dug over for it's rewilding as a meadow space for chilling out in. As you can see, the group got the the heavy ground turned over, breaking it up as best they could, levelling it and then raking up the surface ready for sowing. Kodi in the group had a great idea to put a slate path into the fruit trees, where Sophie has plans to put logs for sitting on. we love it when the ideas come from our young people! The SLP group then spent a period sowing and watering the seeds, before finishing off the slate path. The photos from this session are to follow. We are all really excited to see the finished garden, it should be looking fantastic it is all done, and it's great having our 2 groups supporting the work going on.

We were planting beautiful plants in the community garden, 😄😄🌿by Georgia 😁

In the past 4 weeks the p6/7 class have been working on a community garden that anyone can enjoy. In the community garden there is 2 bug holes one for amphibious bugs and one for any small bug, we have also been planting different plants and preparing beads for more plants. By Ally

We have been helping in our community garden on Monday and Friday. We were helping Lizzy to plant seeds and fill up flower beds. We have planted wildflowers and built a bug hotel. We used the wheel barrows to collect sand and compost for the flower beds.

For the last couple of weeks we have been helping the community by planting flowers, herbs and vegetables. The first week we planted wild flowers around a local path.