May 2011

Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund which funded a year long celebration of Queensdown Woods being part of the South Downs National Park, Dave Bangs has been taking groups of schoolchildren from Moulsecoomb Primary into the woods and surrounding fields. Here’s a list of what Year 5 found. In the Wood When we first stopped in the Wood we could hear Blackcap’s melodious warbling (it is a ‘warbler’ !!) in the background…and the monotonous chiff-chaff of the Chiffchaff… Read More »WALK IN THE WOODS WITH MOULSECOOMB PRIMARY

Thanks to money from the Princes Trust and Sussex Community Foundation we have been busy upgrading our compost loo.

Pupils have been busy planting up their own individual raised beds and some have been helping put up the new polytunnel with coppiced wood.

On friday 13th we did a photography workshop at the forest garden. Volunteers took part in learning how to use a digital camera and photograph parts of the garden that they liked the most. Some volunteers were really familiar with the garden and some were completely new! This was a great way to get together and look at the garden from a different point of view, using our cameras to do it. The photographs were taken with compact digital cameras… Read More »Photography Day at the Forest Garden!