Headteacher: Andrew Drury
Wanborough Primary School, The Beanlands, Wanborough, Swindon, SN4 0EJ
Tel: 01793 790269 Email:admin@wanboroughprimary.org
Gardening Club
Year 6: Tuesday 3.00pm - 4.00pm   Year 4: Wednesday 3.00pm - 4.00pm   Organisers: Mr & Mrs Woodman & Mr Birley
Last updated 15.10.21

Autumn Term

We've had a great time with our two groups since September.

Autumn is the time for harvesting produce and tidying up the garden for the winter.

The slow start to the Spring has been reflected in somewhat less produce than last year, but we have had a superb crop of apples, all three of the trees have produced really good crops.

Children from various classes have enjoyed them, especially after their What's Under Your Feet sessions.

We've sown some seeds ready for next spring and taken cuttings of lavender, rosemary, black currents and a rose bush. We've also planted daffodils around the school site ready for the Spring.

In our last sessions we cooked our produce to create soup. Ingredients included onions, shallots, leeks,potatoes, tomatoes, sweet corn, chard, courgettes and squashes.

The children then served the finished product to their classes.

Well done to everyone for all your enthusiastic work. Gardening Club will be back after the February Half-Term, when we hope to welcome some new members as well as the "old hands".

Year 6:

Year 4:


July 20th

We had an end of term picnic with the Year 5 group (Y6 were at Cotswold Water Park).

We also completed our bug hotels and positioned them around the garden area and school.


July 13th

Year 5 group decorated their bug hotels.


July 7th

The Year 3 & 4 group decorated giant plant labels.


July 6th

The Year 5 & 6 group started working on assembling mini bug hotels to position around the school site.


June 29th & 30th

On Tuesday the Year 5 & 6 groups planted out some more tomatoes, potted on purple sprouting, did weeding and helped to prune our willow teepee.

On Wednesday 30th, the Year 3 group made good use of the prunings by making some decorative picket fences around some of the plots.

They also watered the planting containers under the covered area and the wellies in Reception's outside space.

Lilie from Year 4 helped Mr Birley transplant some wildflowers which were growing in one of the veg plots to the wildflower meadow area.

Soft fruit season is upon us - we have had strawberries for a couple of weeks and should have raspberries, loganberries and gooseberries soon.

June 22nd:

As well as planting tomatoes, watering and weeding, this week Our Year 5 and 6 children got creative with natural materials.

We're starting to get some produce: the first strawberries with more to come, and broad beans.


June 23rd:

The Year 3 and 4 children had a busy time, watering, weeding, moving some herb plants to clear some more space, finding all sorts of creatures and even spotting our resident newt in the pond!


June 2021:

After a very slow start to the Spring - cold and dry then wet, now hot and dry - things are beginning to get started in the garden area.

Before half term we did some site clearing, planted seeds for parsnips, pumpkins, carrots, broad beans, leeks, courgettes and sweet corn.

We are now planting many of these out.

The Year 6 members planted rosemary, lavender and sage cuttings, that we took in the Autumn, in various planters around school, using compost made in our own compost bin. Zero carbon and zero cost!

Year 5 have been keeping the planters and hanging baskets watered.

Since half term we have been running sessions with Year 5 & 6 on the same day but in separate groups, Mr Birley has returned to the the team to supervise Year 6 members. We also now have some very enthusiastic Year 3 and 4 members on Wednesday with a similar arrangement - more about their sessions soon.

Both groups have done a great job adding colour to the Reception outside play area by planting flowering plants in wellies - a great piece of up-cycling. You can see Year 5 at work on this project below. Year 3 did a great job too!

Year 5 before half-term:

Year 6 working on planters:

Welly Planting & Year 6 working with Mr Birley:


Year 5 Session 16.03.21

It was great to welcome back our Year 5 gardeners after a slightly longer winter break than we had hoped for!

In our first session we checked up on the onions and garlic we planted in the autumn, which are doing well. We also pruned some of the rosemary so we were able to take home some lovely fragrant bunches and we harvested some leeks, which have continued to grow through the winter.

We made a start on this season's planting with some broad beans in trays and shallots and onions straight into the ground.

After the session ended we had a visitor keen to take advantage of the newly turned over ground!

Year 6 Session 17.03.21

We started our first Year 6 session digging for buried treasure!

We've had a large parsnip growing through since last year and as we'd heard that Mr Drury was keen on parsnips, we decided to harvest it as our birthday present to him.

Luckily we were able to make the presentation before he left for home - it really was a monster.



The boys also helped Mr Woodman attach some guttering to the shed to fill a water butt and harvested some leeks to take home.