Allotment Update - October

Mrs Westerman has got a fantastic group of keen, enthusiastic gardeners who attend her allotment club and they have been working hard on clearing and digging the weeds out.

The older children have planted onions which hopefully will be ready to harvest next June.Whilst this has been happening, the younger children have been planting strawberry plants in preparation for strawberries and cream next summer!! Yum!! A big thank you to Jamie Lonsdale's granddad for the kind donation of the plants! Keep up the hard work guys.

Allotment Harvested

Yesterday, Monday 16th July, saw Year 2 go into the allotment and harvest our remaining crops! Below are some pictures of the guys getting their hands dirty and some of the fantastic produce they found. Mrs Westerman, allotment club leader, was amazed at the harvesting skills and is looking forward to Mrs Campy using the items in her lunch menu today!

Allotment Club

Here are some pictures of the allotment club's fantastic work. Mrs Westerman has kept the club going with Miss Blaymire away and they have done some planting at the front of school and are continuing to harvest our crops! Keep up the good work guys!

Beans from the allotment

Plant pots at the front of school

Plant pots at the front of school

Allotment update!!

Our allotment is looking fantastic, even in the murky, grey weather that we have at the moment! I just thought I would share some pictures with you to show how brilliant our crops are looking!

Our allotment in full!

Savile, Mexborough and Oswald beds

Pinfold, Mulberry and Watergate beds

Allotment Harvest Begins!!

Fresh from the allotment this morning...

...and in our salads for lunch today!!

Here is a picture of some of the radishes we have harvested from our school allotment. These will be used as part of the school canteens menu today and hopefully this will be the first of many things that we produce for our selves. After the recent sunshine and showers the allotment is looking fantastic and hopefully we will be able to harvest our beans, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage and onions in the coming weeks and months! Well done to the allotment club for looking after the beds and also to the band of volunteers from the Foundation Unit for helping harvest the radishes.

Methley Scarecrow Festival

Our Entry - Oly the Olympian

Here is our fantastic entry for the scarecrow festival. A big well done to the year 2s from allotment club for helping out our volunteers to create the fantastic scarecrow! It will be on show in the summer garden over half term and hopefully, weather permitting, will be moved into the allotment afterwards. 

Volunteer Day 29th May 2012

Just a quick note to say a massive thank you to the group of volunteers from Digital Testing Solutions Team  from First Direct, who worked tirelessly today to help in the allotment. Starting bright and early this morning they have managed to do a whole host of jobs including planting, digging a new flower bed, general tidy up and helped the allotment club to make a scarecrow! the work you have done is a massive help-Thank you!!

Our Aims

Following our recent survey of the environment in and around school we have come up with 4 target areas for the year.

• The Big Tidy Up - we are going to clean up the local area, we will be asking you your thoughts on this soon


• Reduce paper usage - we have introduced paper police into the classroom and are working hard on recycling


• Reduce food waste - introduce compost collection points around school and use this in the school allotment


• Reduce power usage in school - keep up no power hours each week, lights monitors in each class room, regular surveys by year 6 green team members to check up on all classrooms.

If you have any ideas which would help with any of these areas we would love to hear from you.