Often with our work with Gatton, we’ll augment the sessions with the students with extra hours to maintain momentum as well as keep us on track. These augmenting sessions usually happen during normal garden hours on a Sunday, 11am to 1pm. So come down if you specifically want to contribute to this project. Send a […]
Read More →In the past fortnight we have hosted two year groups of 50 children each with staff and parents from Gatton School for two special mid-November outdoor learning sessions, Tooting style. Year Four actively searched the garden’s diverse habitats for minibeasts as part of a curriculum day on the natural world. They found worms, woodlice, centipedes, […]
Read More →On Tuesday 11th November, we enjoyed the second session of our Insect Hotel Project at the Community Garden, with Year 6 from Gatton Primary School in Tooting. Each week there is a new group of 10 students from the two classes of Year 6, so it’s always good to welcome them to the garden before […]
Read More →Since September we have had Year One groups coming every week to the Community Garden. It was a great run of sessions, and we didn’t miss a day because of bad weather. All credit to the children, staff and volunteers.Now we have Reception and Year Six children coming each week until the end of term. We’ll […]
Read More →This week we embarked on our next garden-based project with Year 6 students and teachers from Gatton Primary School in Tooting. This follows the Rainwater Catchment and Cold Frame projects of last year, as reported in this blog and on the education page of Issue 6 in the Transition Free Press. What is an Insect […]
Read More →Wandsworth Council’s May 2014 Brightside magazine has come though our doors, and the eagle-eyed will spot the nice short article with photo mentioning our Tooting Community Garden project with Gatton School. See it on page 8 of Brightside by clicking here. Here’s the photo: Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame The article is about Project […]
Read More →Celebrating the Community Garden & Gatton School rain water catchment project. In November and December 2013 we posted blog reports about the ‘Big Build’ project that we’ve been doing in the garden with Year Six children and staff from Gatton School, and with TTT volunteers. We ran this for seven weeks, and today we managed to […]
Read More →Gatton School’s Year Six classes have had two more amazing sessions, on the 3rd and 10th December. While the rainwater catchment in the Tooting Community Garden – ‘The Build’ – has been growing fast, children have been trying out some of the skills involved. The pictures can tell the story:Year Six were practicing cutting timber joints on 3rd […]
Read More →During this week’s session, the Year Six children caught up with the progress achieved by the previous school groups: raising the six main uprights for the rainwater catchment build, having set the posts in concrete (see earlier Updates below in this blog). Spot the socket wrench What was the next job?Making the roof trusses to support the roof […]
Read More →Even though the year is moving into winter, there’s six ‘new beginnings’ to share with you below. We hope to see you at these events – all welcome to come along and maybe try something new.. 1 On Tuesday 26th November we are starting to plan for the 2014 Tooting Foodival. Do join us and suggest some new […]
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