HEADSTART NURSERY CHILDREN IN GROWING SPACE TAKE OVER!

Ona mission to spread hap-pea-ness, Headstart Nursery are branching out to adopt a growing space that will double up as an outdoor classroom and new opportunities for learning.

The Nursery’s growing space donated by Skypark, is part of our ongoing investment in sustainability, ecology and biodiversity. No waste goes to landfill, and everything here is recycled, composted or sent for refused derived fuel.

Gillian Robertson of Headstart nursery said: “Thanks to the Skypark team, our growing space is hugely beneficial as it allows our children to learn by experience and be outdoors. There are so many lessons to learn; from practical measuring to estimating how many bags of compost it will take to fill a planter, budgeting by using a set amount of money to buy seeds and plants, learning how to germinate seeds, discovering what plants need in order to grow and thrive and how we can best look after them. Let’s not forget how to prepare and cook the fruit and vegetables we actually grow. It is so important that the children understand where their food comes from.

“We are excited to take delivery of fifteen saplings in November from the Woodland Trust’s ‘free trees’ initiative. Our children are learning how important trees are for reducing pollution, providing homes for wildlife, the wood they provide and increasing the wellbeing of humans.”

BUZZY EDUCATORS JOIN SKYPARK!

Skypark is buzzing! It’s great to welcome environmental education firm Bee Friendly Schools and 100,000 of its Scottish honey bees here after agreeing a partnership that sees the firm’s bee educators working from Skypark and delivering a bee education outreach program.

Bee Friendly Schools delivers environmental and sustainability education programs including ‘Meet the bees’ tenant engagement sessions as well as working with schools and community organisations throughout the UK; a non-profit education program delivered by The Good Bee Company.

Wade Ball of The Good Bee Company who runs the education programs and manages the new hives in partnership with Skypark said: “As a UK-wide operation we deliver biodiversity improvement projects across the country but as Glasgow is home, it’s nice to showcase what bees can bring to a community right here in the city. Our work is centred on getting people involved in ecosystem restoration. Finding nature-based solutions underpin everything we do, and in the post-covid workplace bringing people together and maximising productivity is something we are proud to help businesses do, in collaboration with the planet’s hardest workers.” copy, on some roofs.”

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