Our Biodiversity Action Day!

 

 

A BIG thank you to everyone who helped out at our Biodiversity Action day!

Have a look at what we achieved:

  1. We planted a Vegetable garden with Beetroot, Cabbage, Spring onions, Leeks and Broad beans. We sewed Lettuce and Carrot seeds. We also planted Marigolds and Layia seeds as these flowers are supposed to be beneficial to vegetables and ward off  nasty bugs.
  2. We planted Raspberry and Strawberry plants for our Fruit garden.
  3. We created a Scented garden to attract butterflies, bees and insects. This contained Lavender, Sweet pea, Marigold, Lobellia, Daisies, Phlox, Convulvulous, Crocosmia and Sunflowers.
  4. Our Wildflower patch was full of native Irish wildflowers – Yarrow, Wild strawberry, Primrose, Bluebells, Ox-eye daisy, Field scabious, Honeysuckle, Selfheal, Devils bit scabious and Sheeps bit. We also put down some wildflower seeds.
  5. We relocated our Bird feeding station as this had to be moved because of building work at the school.
  6. We put up a Bird box. We choose a Blue Tit box which we got from BirdWatch Ireland.
  7. We put up a Bee home.
  8. We put up a Butterfly and Lacewing box.
  9. We put up a wooden Peanut feeder donated to us by CJ Wildlife.
  10. We set up a log pile for our Insect hotel.

Thanks to Alex and Emma from Kilquade Garden Centre  for all their advice on what vegetables and plants to put down. Also to Declan in BirdWatch Ireland for  his advice on bird and wildlife boxes. Thanks also to Future Forests and Mary Ann for help with the native Irish wildflowers and to the Irish Wildlife Trust for pointing us in the right direction. Thanks to CJ Wildlife who donated a wooden bird feeder plus peanut butter bird feed. Finally thank you and well done to all the volunteers, parents, siblings and the green school committee for all your great work.

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6 thoughts on “Our Biodiversity Action Day!

  1. Teacher, 2nd Class Room 6

    That looks great. The Greens School Committee have been busy. Well done on all your hard work.

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  2. 2nd Class Room 6

    Great to see the photographs. The labels on them are very informative. We had thought the boxes the Green Schools Committee had planted were just ‘flowers’. Now we know that they are wild flowers, scented flowers and vegetables.

    Already all your hard work has had an effect. From our classroom window we have seen blue tits, chaffinches and a gold finch feeding from the bird feeders.

    We will try and get a photo and post it.
    Thanks for all your hard work.

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    1. flang Post author

      Thank you Room 6. We will be putting up signs on all the raised beds so that everyone knows what they are.

      Happy bird watching 🙂

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  3. Edel

    Well done to you all,

    I am going to show this to my school in Melbourne.
    We have got a gardening club too. Maybe they can start a blog of their own!

    At the moment in Grade 1-2, we are studying environments. We have visited CERES environmental centre and learned about waste. We think it would be great to start composting and recycling at our school.

    We would love a comment http://holyrosary.global2.vic.edu.au

    Thanks for sharing your bio-diversity day.

    Edel

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  4. Green schools

    Wow! Great to hear from you in Australia!

    We are delighted to hear that your class is learning all about the environment and getting involved in recycling and composting. If we could get all the schools all over the world involved we could certainly make a dent in the landfill situation.

    Happy recycling and let us know how you get on.

    All the best,
    Fiona and the Green schools committee

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  5. merrybeau

    Anita 6th class said:

    Its nice too see the school planting flowers in our school garden,it will be lovely seeing the flowers/vegetables growing in our school:D!

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