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WOODLAND OPEN DAY 4TH JUNE 2011

On a beautiful sunny day in June nearly 300 people came to our open day to learn about bees, go on guided walks in the woods, learn about composting, herbs and wildflowers. Look at our amazing new compost loo, make string from nettles and bark, practice some basket making or wood carving. Make pizzas in our clay oven, dress up or pond dip. Here’s a selection of photos taken by Esther Lynn Thanks to Big Lottery Fund for funding this… Read More »WOODLAND OPEN DAY 4TH JUNE 2011

WALK IN THE WOODS WITH MOULSECOOMB PRIMARY

Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund which funded a year long celebration of Queensdown Woods being part of the South Downs National Park, Dave Bangs has been taking groups of schoolchildren from Moulsecoomb Primary into the woods and surrounding fields. Here’s a list of what Year 5 found. In the Wood When we first stopped in the Wood we could hear Blackcap’s melodious warbling (it is a ‘warbler’ !!) in the background…and the monotonous chiff-chaff of the Chiffchaff… Read More »WALK IN THE WOODS WITH MOULSECOOMB PRIMARY

Pupils have been busy planting up their own individual raised beds and some have been helping put up the new polytunnel with coppiced wood.

Photography Day at the Forest Garden!

On friday 13th we did a photography workshop at the forest garden. Volunteers took part in learning how to use a digital camera and photograph parts of the garden that they liked the most. Some volunteers were really familiar with the garden and some were completely new! This was a great way to get together and look at the garden from a different point of view, using our cameras to do it. The photographs were taken with compact digital cameras… Read More »Photography Day at the Forest Garden!

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

We received some lottery money to celebrate Queensdown Woods being part of the new South Downs National Park. Some of this is being used to take Moulsecoomb Primary pupils around the woods and surrounding area with wildlife expert Dave Bangs. Here are his notes from a Year 4 trip to Moulsecoomb Wild Park and beyond on 5th April 2011 ‘We actually found a lot of wildlife this afternoon amidst all the running around and letting off steam !! On the… Read More »WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Tadpole time

It’s that time of the year when the tadpoles have hatched and the newts are busy eating them. Along with our big wildlife pond we have an old bath which we use as a tadpole refugee. But the newts keep getting through the nets we put over the bath and the pupils have a great time fishing them out and putting them back into the big pond. We also feed the tadpoles fish flakes cos once they get too fat… Read More »Tadpole time

Stan ready to tackle the potato trench, Zac gearing up for some tree work and a view from the top of the plot

Photography and compost loos

The essential ingredient of what we do is the wide range of people that get to work together. There are not many places where you get such a mix. A while back a rip off consultancy firm got paid a shed load of money in Moulsecoomb to come to the conclusion that a lot of the kids on the estate do not have a wide range of networks to rely on. They could have given us a tenner to find… Read More »Photography and compost loos