Two CIT Schools have been lucky enough to secure £10,000 of funding each to support biodiversity on their school grounds.
A disused area to the edge of Chapel St Leonard’s Primary School playing field is being completely revitalised into a Nature Reserve! The area has now been cleared, and the beginnings of a new pond installation has begun. We will be adding numerous new features including bird feeders and bug hotels, as well as raised beds for planting. These will have an array of wildlife friendly flowers in them, encouraging the natural world closer into the school grounds.
The Nature Reserve Project is being led by teacher Adam Le’Gate: “This is a whole school approach. Everyone can get involved creating the Nature Reserve. In the spring, pupils will be planting new flowers throughout the area. We have a shed to store all the tools and equipment needed to maintain the area, complete with two water butts.
The children have been so inspired by the project; this term will see the creation of our new school Eco Council, who will be tasked with monitoring the progress and maintaining the works in the nature reserve.”
Whilst work has begun improving green spaces at Woodlands Academy in Spilsby. Their funding will be spent on numerous new features around school beginning with five new planters being erected over the next couple of months. These will have an array of wildlife friendly plants in them, encouraging the natural world closer into the school playgrounds. Alongside the raised planters, solar powered wildlife cameras will be set up around school and hopefully in the woods.
The project will be a whole school approach, with everyone getting involved to help create the new planters, filling them, planting them, and helping with the recording of video footage of new bird nest boxes and feeding stations.
All parts of the project will be constructed by the pupils.
The grants were both funded by the DfE whilst engaging our pupils with the National Education Nature Park Programme. The programme empowers children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future.
