Outdoor Classroom Build

Sorry for the delay since the last blog update but it’s been all go with the project. On January 26th CoastNet headed to Fingringhoe Primary School with Essex Wildlife Trust to design the classroom with Class 2. After a tour of the site to see the area we would be working in we headed back to the classroom to put some ideas to paper. The children were overflowing with ideas and pretty quickly we had more ideas than could possibly fit in the space we had. Here’s a run down of the highlights:

Money tree (to help those in Haiti)
Log circle
Clay oven
Fruit bushes and trees
Pond dipping platform
Mini beast hotel
Compost heap
Stag pyramid
Bird hide

After voting on the best ideas Class 2 constructed a model of the garden and presented it to the rest of the school.

Digging and Worms.

Now armed with the plan, we returned to the site on the 3rd and 12th of February to start building. Construction of the outdoor classroom is well under way now with apple trees, gooseberry, raspberry and blackberry bushes planted. The log circle is finished and the bird hide is almost finished. But we’ve still got a lot more to do so please come along, help out and have some fun! The next build days are 24th February and 2nd of March.