Over the past few months we have been working with the Royal Horticultural Society to improve our understanding of growing food with the children. We entered their competition and we are happy to say we have been awarded level 3. We have submitted our entry for level 4 and await the results.
Overbury Grasshoppers News
The great soup challenge
- 13 Oct 2017
- Healthy eating
The children were tasked with finding ingredients from our trips out and about to make soup with.
British Food fortnight part 2
- 26 Sep 2017
- Countryside education, Healthy eating
The children have been busy this week collecting vegetables and fruit ready for their baking session.
British food fortnight
- 20 Sep 2017
- Healthy eating
The children have been out and about meeting Jake the farmer, Robert the head gardener and Billy the chef to find out about where food comes from and how we make the things we like to eat. British food fortnight runs from 23rd September to the 8th October click here for more details
Autumn fun
- 19 Sep 2017
- Nature, Understanding of the World
The children put on their wellington boots and went off on an adventure hunting for conkers.
Fruit collecting in the Orchard
- 12 Sep 2017
- Countryside education, Nature
Today, after a few windy days, we took the children into the orchard to collect the fruit that had fallen off the trees. The gardening team are going to make some compost from the fallen fruit.
Listening station
- 12 Sep 2017
- Communication, Language
The children have had lots of fun using our new listening station.
Summer rain
- 30 Aug 2017
- Understanding of the World
The children have been out and about following their interest in water.
Water safety
- 24 Aug 2017
- Communication, Understanding of the World
Continuing with the children's interest in water we went to visit the swimming pool to talk about safety in and around the water.