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Flower Border Jungle Garden Shrub Mound Butterfly Mound Woodland Gardens |
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For a relatively small village school, the gardens at Rode School are quite a surprise and many people do not expect to find such extensive grounds when walking around the school for the first time. We even have our own allotment close by, brimming with seasonal vegetables.Rode School is blessed with beautiful gardens, which are located below the playground. Surrounded by mature trees and farmland, we have developed these gardens considerably over the past few years, adding a winding multi-sensory pathway and play equipment, chosen by the children themselves. The pathway immediately transformed the playing field and made it very usable throughout the year. The younger children really enjoy zooming around the winding pathway on the school's trikes and scooters!
With help from keen parents and kind donations from garden centres, we have also planted up herbaceous plants, shrubs and bulbs, which ensure that there is always something in flower, throughout the year. Our orchard tunnel is always a beautiful sight in the spring, providing the school with apples, pears, plums and greengages at the beginning of September, the start of a new term.
Garden Centres and Thanks
The teachers regularly enjoy taking the children around the gardens to spot butterflies on the buddleia and inula, to collect snails to study, or to simply draw the flowers. The wildlife in the gardens is quite extraordinary and we have put up a number of nest boxes to encourage small birds. We regularly see pheasants strutting along the pathways, grey squirrels playing in the trees, bats darting around in the evening, and recently spotted a tiny goldcrest, the smallest songbird in the UK. Please take a look at our gardens further, using the links above.
Plan of the Gardens
