Tayport Primary discovers joys of learning at the Garden

Thank you to the PTA for raising funds for development of the outdoor classroom in the Garden!

Broadbeans are flowering

Tayport Primary P1 and P2 learning to dig

It’s all very well organised during the school visits

School green sprouting broccoli is ready to eat

Peas are coming along too!

P1 and P2 pupils making bird feeders

Pea flowers

P1 and P2 pupils planting sunflowers

Scavenger hunt with P1s and P2s

Peter provided some quality advice on digging

Tayport Primary School P7 last day of school at the Garden

Margaret, PLANT Chair and school liaison, and Peter, PLANT Community Gardener, recieving a thank you card from Primary 1 pupil, Sam Tennant, on behalf of the School at the end of term

Since March 2016, all the classes in Tayport Primary have visited The Community Garden with their teachers and volunteers. Pupils have used their local environment in many cross curricular activities. These have included Science experiments, seed sowing, transplanting, observing and drawing plants and caring for plants in the school plot and in the polytunnel.

You can listen to the report from one of the visits below (or follow this link).

The fun learning continues next session when PLANT and the school work in partnership to extend the learning and teaching across the seasons.

The PTA has been busy too. They kindly donated funds to enable us to build an outdoor classroom to ensure pupils can come together to share their learning with each other – and grown ups too!

Mrs Jill Ramsay from the PTA presented a cheque to Mrs Margaret Robertson PLANT Committee Member on Monday 20th June 2016 whilst Mrs Holmes, Head Teacher and Primary 2/3 looked on. We all discovered that learning can be fun outside a classroom too.