The Little Land Project visit Shay Lane Primary School.
The Little Land Project used funds donated by Adaptive Control Solutions Ltd to provide a morning of fun and learning for children in nursery and reception at Shay Lane Primary School in Wakefield.
The Little Land Project aims to teach the next generation about the importance of our environment and to help improve biodiversity in urban spaces. Hundreds of wildflowers were planted around the grounds of the school by the Gardening Club and they set up a wormery composter that will help them to recycle food waste from the kitchen and provide lots of lovely fertilizer for the forest school.
Shay Lane Primary has such a wonderful approach to forest school learning and already has amazing provisions in the wildlife area which is partially wooded and filled with dens, mud kitchens, hedgehog habitats and bug hotels. They have an inspiring approach and we were so excited to be able to spend time with the children there.
We had a fun morning making bee bombs from clay and wildflower seeds that the children took home to plant in their gardens. We also read a book about worms together and learned about how worms help seeds grow and the different ways they improve the soil. We then had fun running around the forest area collecting old leaves to add to our early years wormery that would be left in the classroom for observation. The children all took turns to hold the worms and report on how they felt and what parts of the bodies they could see, they then helped fill the observation wormery with sand and coir and worm food. The children will watch to see how the worms eat the food that they put in and see how they turn it into worm castings.
With donations like those made by Adaptive Control Solutions and Greener Waste Technology, The Little Land Project can continue to support the improvement of forest school provisions in schools and continue their goal to improve biodiversity in community urban spaces- using the outdoors as a place of sanctuary for different community groups.
If you would like to work with us to support the community in your area by making a donation, setting up a fundraising event or donating land for planting or rewilding please get in touch via our website www.thelittlelandproject.com
