The Jubilee garden has developed steadily in Term 1 through the Gardening ECA. Students have been busy growing different types of vegetable seeds, which have flourished during our recent bout of rainfall. Hopefully, these will bear fruits and vegetables soon to give us our first TES harvest. Students have also enjoyed getting messy with paint and made a couple of bug hotels from old wooden pallets, breeze blocks, twigs, terracotta tiles and straw, which will hopefully attract some bug tourists to come and stay for us to study. We have hung bird feeders, watering stations and nesting houses in the hedgerow to encourage small birds to our garden in the future. You may have waved to our two resident scarecrows, which students stitched, stuffed with straw and put together to add character to our garden and guard our precious vegetables! Our most recent project has been to start making mosaic stepping stones, which will provide an interesting and decorative pathway across the garden space. The 60th anniversary time capsule, containing memorabilia put together by the children from The English School’s diamond jubilee year was buried on the 15th December in the centre of the garden and is marked with a plaque commemorating the moment and informing everyone that there is now a 60 year wait before its contents can be revealed!

The Garden has provided a fantastic outdoor learning space, which will continue to develop further in the future to provide many beneficial learning experiences for children at TES.

Mrs Mahmoud

(Head of Science)

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