A short summary of some 2013 garden club activities alongwith 2 photos that may appear in the next Outdoor Learning newsletter!

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The garden at Portree Primary School is home to our after school garden club.  Around 15 pupils attended for the 2013 Autumn and Winter sessions.  We started by digging up potatoes and cabbages, picking peas and pulling rhubarb.  Everyone got to take something home and contribute towards their favourite teatime dishes.  As we found insects and bugs they were added to our Beastie House which we made last year.  One week everything stopped while we studied  a toad who had made his home among the bushes and roots in the shadiest part of our garden.  A couple of wild, stormy days forced us inside where we made leaf collages, wrote nature poems and tried out some garden wordpuzzles and quizzes.  Other weeks, adding to our colourful garden, we planted some apple and plum trees then it was time to clean all our tools and prepare them for winter in the shed alongside some bulbs potted up waiting patiently for Spring.  Our last Winter session  was a showing of the puppet show film ‘The Man who Planted Trees’ filling us with inspiration for next season.