All Saints Academy Stoke Ferry Forest school
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All Saints Academy in Stoke Ferry are looking at giving the forest school a well deserved makeover.
A school of around 100 pupils with 4 classes 3 of which are dual year groups. All of our pupils are filled with love,energy and compassion. The school teaches our children to love their neighbours, kindness and empathy.
The children are lucky enough to have a big play ground and field to play on.
They are also blessed to have a forest school area within the grounds. Albeit this has been neglected over the last year, last year the school friends association arranged to clear the area and with a lot of hard work and organisation made amazing head way, but nature has taken over and the area needs to be maintained, as well as providing it with a face lift.
A group of parents, are trying our best to get it back up and running so the children can use it to their full advantage.
I have attached photos of the work we have completed so far. We have managed to cut back around half of the 4ft high stinging nettles that dominated the area.
We volunteer our time,tools and energy to this for free.
We are looking for donations to assist with making this a safer environment for the children to learn the wonders of nature. As well as utilising the area during this difficult time with covid, the school are so compassionate with the childrens needs. Whether its a child struggling with something and needing to escape when things get too much, or somewhere for a child to go to talk to a teacher about their feelings or a place to enjoy the freedom and open space after sitting SAT'S exams. It is so versatile for different needs but is also to teach the children the wonders and beauty of nature.
We would be so grateful for any kind of donation to help the ongoing work needed to help restore the area
Anything would be so gratefully recieved.
Stoke ferry timber have kindly donated the timber for the bridge.
The money would be used for...
Pond liner to cover a small 5m x 5m pond.
Postcrete to assist with the bridge building.
Bird and bat boxes for the trees,Bug hotels and Hedgehog houses to help bring wildlife to the area.
Plants,herbs and pond plants to provided a variety of new and exciting smells, textures and wildlife to the area.
This area has been so important to our children at school during this time, I can not stress how much it means to them...nor can I put into words how much it would mean for it be fully operational for them.
These children have shown so much compassion and resilience during the lockdown. They have been making cakes for their neighbours, writing comics to people in hospital who can not have visitors, making worry monsters for people, setting up a village bear hunt with teddies hidden in windows, a Stoke ferry rocks- stone hide and seek, all through their own will and want to do so, making the most out of such an uncertain and difficult time for them.
It would be wonderful to give these children something that they truly deserve and the teachers somewhere new and exciting to take the children.
We certainly aren't looking at making in an extension of the playground/playfield, we want this to be an educational environment where the children can learn the beauty nature.
Co-organizers (5)
Kaylee Ginger
Organizer
Don Walker
Beneficiary
Harriet Hurrell
Co-organizer
Jo Walker
Co-organizer
Mark Ginger
Co-organizer