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.... would vandalise the veg garden of a primary school?
Yesterday afternoon (Thurs) was gardening club at our village school. It's only a small school with less than 50 pupils in total and is very close knit.
This week I was helping one group and their teacher, make bamboo wigwams for the broad beans and sow carrots, parsnips and cauliflowers into one of the beds we prepared last week.
Another group was sowing carrots and parsnips into 1ltre empty pop bottles (the idea is to enable them to be able to watch the root veg forming).
The third group were busy putting together and filling various bird feeders which their teacher had bought out of her own pocket. This same teacher has been working tirelessly to raise funds and obtain grants to develope the veg garden.
By 2.30pm slightly wonky wigwams were in place over the broad bean seedlings, the see through planters were also in situ and 6 brightly coloured birdfeeders were hanging from some of the trees surrounding the playground and garden.
The children were understandably proud of their efforts and the parents were having all the improvements pointed out to them at home tme, by ALL the children not just the gardening club.
By 8.30 this morning, the wigwams had been pulled out of the ground, a bag of compost which had been supplied for potato planting had been thrown all over the place and all but one of the birdfeeders had been stolen. The remaining one had been emptied.
Why? What possible reason or enjoyment could they have had for this wanton vandalism? The worst thing is that it is probably older kids who aren't at the school, who are to blame
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The children are understandably upset, as is the teacher who has worked so hard on the garden and now the whole project is in jeopardy
. Next Thursday, the children were supposed to be making scarecrows but they'll probably be stolen or destroyed as well.
As the teacher says, the kids were upset enough by the bird feeders being stolen. It's sickening.
Regards, a very saddened
Reet
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Yesterday afternoon (Thurs) was gardening club at our village school. It's only a small school with less than 50 pupils in total and is very close knit.
This week I was helping one group and their teacher, make bamboo wigwams for the broad beans and sow carrots, parsnips and cauliflowers into one of the beds we prepared last week.
Another group was sowing carrots and parsnips into 1ltre empty pop bottles (the idea is to enable them to be able to watch the root veg forming).
The third group were busy putting together and filling various bird feeders which their teacher had bought out of her own pocket. This same teacher has been working tirelessly to raise funds and obtain grants to develope the veg garden.
By 2.30pm slightly wonky wigwams were in place over the broad bean seedlings, the see through planters were also in situ and 6 brightly coloured birdfeeders were hanging from some of the trees surrounding the playground and garden.
The children were understandably proud of their efforts and the parents were having all the improvements pointed out to them at home tme, by ALL the children not just the gardening club.
By 8.30 this morning, the wigwams had been pulled out of the ground, a bag of compost which had been supplied for potato planting had been thrown all over the place and all but one of the birdfeeders had been stolen. The remaining one had been emptied
.Why? What possible reason or enjoyment could they have had for this wanton vandalism? The worst thing is that it is probably older kids who aren't at the school, who are to blame
.The children are understandably upset, as is the teacher who has worked so hard on the garden and now the whole project is in jeopardy
. Next Thursday, the children were supposed to be making scarecrows but they'll probably be stolen or destroyed as well.As the teacher says, the kids were upset enough by the bird feeders being stolen. It's sickening.
Regards, a very saddened
Reet
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