St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
All Year 5 classes were involved in the project and the whole
term's curriculum was based around the garden - religion, maths,
English, etc. (See testimonial of how easy that term was).
The students thoroughly loved their time in the garden, always
running across the oval to get to their garden classes as quickly
as possible
This school is on coastal sand and unfortunately the soil mix we
paid for had nut grass in it. This weed consumes enormous
amounts of our time as we try to weed it out. Over the
holidays, even though we cover it with very thick newspaper, it
comes alive and takes over the garden again.
The garden went through an inactive time as the 3 main people
involved with the project weren't there - the Principal
transferred, the Special Ed teacher went on long service leave
and the Year 5 Co-Ordinator changed to teaching 1 day a week.
Whenever I have a new enquiry about an edible school gardens I
tell them to get at least 3 supporters first, one must be the
Principal, one must be a teacher and the others can be teachers
or parents, the idea being that should one drop out, there are
still 2 people left to carry the program until others come on
board. Thankfully everything from the orginal set up has
been documented and another teacher has restarted the garden
program.
2009 Unfortunately the Edible School Garden has been bulldozed to
make way for new building. At least if we start again,
we'll know not to order in that landscape mix.