27 May Peace Garden News
The Peace Garden is a unique multi-purpose space within the school where students can practise gardening skills, appreciate nature and grow plants and vegetables. It is an ongoing student project and an additional resource for learning and teaching. It is also used as a place of remembrance, commemoration, celebration and reconciliation.
Over the last few weeks the Peace Garden students have been working hard digging, painting, weeding and planting. They are currently growing a range of fruit, vegetables and herbs, and preparing areas for growing wild flowers, creating a small pond and planting seeds from space!
The skills and efforts of the students have been recognised by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. JRCS has achieved Level 1 in the RHS School Gardening Awards. The award was presented by Paul Hogan, Barking and Dagenham’s Director of Culture and Recreation, on a recent visit. Thank you to Miss Ochwat for nominating the students for the award.
Seeds from Space: Miss Ochwat’s Smarties Science Club are part of ‘Rocket Science’, a project launched by the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Campaign for School Gardening and UK Space Agency. In September 2015, 2kg of rocket seeds were flown to the International Space Station (ISS) on Soyuz 44S where they spent several months in microgravity before returning to Earth in March 2016. These are now growing in the Peace Garden alongside seeds that haven’t been to space to measure the differences.
Grow Wild – Royal Botanic Gardens: The Peace Garden is also part of a project led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to transform local spaces by growing native wild flowers. An area has been set aside for this and the flowers will come into full bloom just as we return from the summer break.
Peace Garden Team: Thank you to the Peace Garden Team: Jay Kent, Lewis Golby, Shanise Garner, Kai Brace, Lauren Young, Sam Clark, Vasilena Pencheva, Curtis Dobson, Harry Ely, Seidu Salifu, Semi Adeyeni, Arnit Gashi, Sid Summers, Aaron Nye, Sean Ward. Also special thanks to Mrs Ellis, our Gardening Adviser.
Mr Kilminster
Co-educator
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