SCHOOL TOUR

Please enjoy a 'virtual tour' round our school. Simply click any of the thumbnails below to see a bigger version of the picture.

Main Entrance	Reception Area	Back Entrance	Park Area
Fitness Hall	Dining Hall	Computer Suite	School Library
Sensory Corridor	Wheels Park	KS1 Playground	KS2 Playground
KS1 Play Equipment	KS2 Play Equipment	Wrap Around Centre	Year 4 Corridor
Art Room	Wonder World	Year 1 Classroom	Year 2 Classroom
Year 3 Classroom	Year 4 Classroom	Year 5 Classroom	Year 6 Classroom
	Indoor Slide	The Changing Room

Our Allotment

In February 2011 Ms Davies and Miss Marshall thought it would be a great idea to start a small allotment at Parkfield Community School to help children to learn about food production, growing and healthy eating.

Once a location had been found within the school grounds, Ms Davies, Miss Marshall and a group of Year 4 pupils then set about ordering the raised bed planters, green house, water butts and finally the seeds for the fruit and vegetables that would be grown there.

The allotment has been an amazing success. It has produced so many vegetables that we have been able to give them to the school kitchen to cook and serve for lunch but it also demonstrated to the children beautifully how plants grow and eventually end up on your dinner plate.

Frank, our fabulous gardener, is now helping to maintain the allotment and is striving to expand it in terms of area and produce different types of vegetables that we grow so we can supply the kitchen on a more regular basis, for a fraction of the cost of buying them in. As the allotment itself develops we hope to extend the involvement of more pupils across the school and hopefully some parents.

Watch this space…no, watch the allotment!

Here are some quotes from our green fingered gardeners:

• "It's fun and I learnt how to grow potatoes. We have to water it so things don't die". Sajid, Year 5
• "I watched the plant grow. Some grew fast, some grew slow". Mahek
• "I like the allotment very much because we can do planting". Jermaine
• "I enjoyed tasting what I planted". Imanie
• "I really had fun filling the pot with soil". Hawwaa

The allotment in May 2011.		The runner beans are beginning to climb.
The compost bin.		Cucumbers in May.
Broad Beans in May.		Onions in May.
Onions planted outside.		A close up on the runner beans.
Lots of things are starting to grow.		Our allotment looks very healthy!
We can learn a lot from growing our own vegetables.		A collection from our allotment in June 2011.
More pickings in June.		A great bowl of home-grown strawberries.
Look what we've picked!		Our cooks will serve our vegetables for school dinners.