{"id":1490,"date":"2013-09-10T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.schoolsays.co.uk\/~strettonhandley\/wildlife\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2013-09-19T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:11:52","slug":"learning-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/learning-with-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our winning Dragon’s Den presenters<\/p><\/div>\n

Last term our children pitched their ideas for a ‘learning garden’ at a\u00a0Dragon’s Den style competition<\/a> which was part of an enterprise project between local primary schools.\u00a0The Dragon\u2019s Den panel were so impressed with the way the children\u00a0talked about\u00a0the plans, and how the \u2018Learning Garden\u2019 idea built on and developed what we already had, that we won! The garden is being funded with the prize money, some lottery funding and also with money raised by the children through their Enterprise fund raising activities.<\/p>\n

At the end of last term, we purchased some plants and planted up a herb garden (smell), a Buddleia garden to attract butterflies and other insects (sight), and a vegetable patch with runner beans and leeks (taste). This term we hope to complete our ‘touch and hearing’ garden with a range of textural plants and a water feature (our outgoing Year 6s very kindly donated some money to go towards the water feature).<\/p>\n\n\t\t