Blooming marvellous!

more than 66 hectares – or 163 football pitches – of lush wildflower habitat have been created in the south downs national park to help bees flourish.

the national park Bee lines initiative continues to give a helping hand to struggling pollinator populations by creating wildflower havens at farms, community fields, recreation grounds, road verges, schools, and even cemeteries and golf clubs.

early ecological data shows that the wildflower planting is helping bees and butterflies bounce back.

new planting effectively creates a “road system” for pollinating insects, allowing them to move through the landscape more easily nick heasman, a countryside policy manager for the south downs national park who has been helping to lead Bee lines, said:“it’s blooming marvellous that thanks to all the donations from the public we’ve been able to create these new havens for pollinators.

“Bees are busy ecosystem engineers and by pollinating flowers they create food for other wildlife and, of course, humans. in fact, one out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees.

“Bee lines is just one strand of the national park’s renature campaign and it’s incredibly exciting to see nature recovery in action.” we have without a doubt seen an enormous increase in biodiversity resulting from the new meadow where children have identified snails, mice, buzzard as well as many species of butterflies and bees. in addition to raising children's awareness of the importance of pollinating insects in the food chain, the wildflower meadow is also a wonderful source of peace, beauty and tranquillity” to donate visit: www.southdownstrust.org.uk/beelines/

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Hands-on gardening experience for Schoolchildren

an allotment patch has been handed over to the infant school who will use it to teach the children, aged four –seven years, about growing different types of food.

as part of their curriculum, as well as starting an afterschool gardening club, the school is keen for the children to get some hands-on experience havant Borough council has 12 allotment sites, with a total of 770 plots, that are managed by their partnership organisation norse south east. mrs Julie cook, headteacher said,“we want to be able to create an attractive vegetable plot for the children to grow their own produce food growing can teach children about soil, nutrition, science and life cycles of the vegetables and creatures in the garden. it is such an inspiring project that engages children at a young age in ‘hands-on’ activities, from the sowing and digging to expanding their knowledge about vegetable and recognising when things are ripe and ready to eat. helping to prepare the plot ready for the children will be the school site manager chris Berry if you are interested in having an allotment visit www.havant.gov.uk/allotments. youngsters at Bidbury infant school in fraser road, Bedhampton will have the joys of learning how to plant and grow their own vegetables thanks to a havant Borough council initiative

“our aim is to develop our pupils understanding of the journey of food from planting to cooking and then eating.” councillor lulu Bowerman said,“i was so pleased when the school expressed an interest in our allotment site, and requested to take on this growing patch.

Millie C in Year 7 competed for a place in the Nationals in the Regional Swimming Championships. Millie had a fantastic result - 200m Butterfly in 3 minutes, 2 seconds, beating her personal best by 3 seconds. Definitely a future Olympian in our school - well done Millie!

Ms Gregory

Last month, Year 9 and 10 History

Ambassadors were the first students from Park to visit the Houses of Parliament. The tour began in the historic Westminster Hall where we had a welcome and time for questions with our local MP, Alan Mak. Next up was our visit to the House of Commons where we were able to sit in the gallery and listen to a debate on NHS dentistry. This was followed by our chance to sit in the House of Lords and listen to proposed amendments to a new online safety bill for children.

Our day finished with a student-led debate on the idea of free transport fo under 18s, where they took on the ro opposing parties, arguing for or against this proposed legislation. This was a great way of learning the process in which laws are passed and students got fully stuck into their roles as presented themselves with confidence and maturity.

Mrs Last

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Mr Fred Deeks, who served as chair of governors at Park for 25 years has purchased some fantastic books for our library. Mr Deeks kindly met with some of our reading ambassadors and discussed their reading in and out of school and areas of interest. Armed with this information, he visited Waterstones and purchased a range of books for our library Students were delighted with his choices. Thank you Mr Deeks.

Mrs Capaldi

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