News

By Colin Simpson

Gardeners at The Churchill School are holding an open day at the school gardens on Wednesday May 7th at 3.15pm.

The children, staff and gardening volunteers have been busy growing plants and vegetables, and produce will be on display and sold by the children.

Visitors will be able to see the raised garden beds established last year and “walk through” the 50ft polytunnel.

With several afterschool clubs starting to work in the gardens, and the new addition of a wormery which is due to arrive soon, the gardens are becoming very popular.

The children hope to enter produce in forthcoming competitions in Hawkinge and from within the school. The Deputy Headteacher Paul Newton is keen to start a pumpkin growing competition and has already claimed his patch inside the polytunnel for his class to start work.

Although the school business manager, Colin Simpson, is expected to know the answers to many and numerous unusual questions, he was caught off guard when Paul Newton asked about the ideal growing conditions for large and tasty organic pumpkins. Luckily a very experienced gardening volunteer was on hand to answer the questions in detail.

Further additions to the gardens will include extensive wooden staging which will be installed in the polytunnel over the next couple of weeks.

Visitors are welcome to attend, and if you would like to join the gardening volunteers at the school, they really would love to hear from you.