Another great year for school visits to Broomfield Park

Report from Helen Blairman:

The education programme has gone from strength to strength this year.

We welcomed another primary school to the schedule and ran extremely successful outdoor education workshops for children in Yrs 1 & 2 from local schools. This was only possible because of the huge contribution made by the volunteers. We also collaborated with Hazelwood School and Morrisons PLC to run a seed planting workshop for the children at Hazelwood. Morrisons donated compost and seeds and I visited the school and along with the school staff, I helped the children make seed pots out of recycled newspaper which they then planted with seeds. Six weeks later the children visited the park and planted their seeds in the growing space. We were so lucky to have a beautiful display of sunflowers. This was an extremely successful collaboration between three key members of the local community and more similar initiatives are planned for the future.