- Watering and picking ripe produce
- Supporting the adults during bespoke gardening workshops
- Ensuring the school garden is well maintained
- Creating seed packets to sell to the public
- Documenting the work of the class and being responsible for long term projects such as our year group herbarium.
Head Gardeners
The Eco Schools (Green Team) is responsible for:
- 21st November 2025
Head Gardeners Plan New Garden Projects
Head Gardeners Plan New Garden Projects
Our Head Gardeners have been hard at work, choosing the perfect sunny, tucked-away spot for a new bird house and planning areas to grow blackberries and strawberries this summer. They…
- 25th September 2025
Pupil Voice Fayre 2025
Pupil Voice Fayre 2025
Our Year 1 to 6 pupils explored Pupil Voice stalls to learn about roles such as Junior Road Safety Officers, Timetable Ambassadors and Librarians. They then applied, sharing their skills,…
- 12th October 2023
Pupil Voice Fayre 2023
Pupil Voice Fayre 2023
Southwold's Pupil Voice Fayre was a roaring success with everyone leaving motivated to apply for a pupil voice job at school. Ambassadors from last year spoke to the pupils about…
- 9th November 2022
Year 4 Create Spun Linen Yarn
Year 4 Create Spun Linen Yarn
Year 4 enjoyed taking part in their second gardening workshop. They took their retted flax and were breaking, scutching, heckling and spinning with the drop spindle. They learnt that the…
- 5th October 2022
Pupil Voice Fayre
Pupil Voice Fayre
KS1 and KS2 enjoyed attending their pupil voice fayre this week. The hall was filled with many stalls where they had the chance to speak to the Year 6 ambassadors…
- 22nd September 2022
Southwold Awarded With Best School Garden
Southwold Awarded With Best School Garden
Southwold Garden has been awarded runner up prize for the Best School Garden. The ceremony will be held in October where a few students will be selected to represent!
- 26th May 2022
Sunflower Growing Class Competition
Sunflower Growing Class Competition
Each class is taking part in a sunflower growing competition, where the children are responsible for watering and looking after their class' plant. Next term, we will compare the sunflowers…
- 13th May 2021
Year 3 Gardening Workshop
Year 3 Gardening Workshop
Children having gardening work shops this half term have been focusing on planting seeds which they will then look after in their classrooms. Spring is the best time to plant…
- 29th January 2021
Early Years’ Gardening Workshop
Early Years’ Gardening Workshop
The children in Nursery and Reception have been learning about seeds and bulbs and how plants grow. They learnt that in order to grow plants need: light, air, water, and…
- 29th January 2021
Year 4 Gardening
Year 4 Gardening
Year 4 classes have been learning how to scutch, heckle and spin their home-grown flax fibre into a ball of linen yarn. Pupils also learnt how Egyptian mummy bandages were…
- 25th March 2020
Tending to the Southwold Garden
Tending to the Southwold Garden
The children attending school this week have been busy helping Ms Ivita to water the garden and plant the potatoes which are ready for planting!
- 31st October 2019
Animal Footprints in Year 1!
Animal Footprints in Year 1!
Year 1 were learning about some of the animals that can be found in a garden. They learnt that mice use their whiskers to determine how close they are to…
- 7th October 2019
Bread making in Year 2!
Bread making in Year 2!
The children in Year 2 made the bread using the wheat that they had grown in the garden at school. Each child took home a loaf of bread made from…
- 24th September 2019
Year 4 Flax Workshop
Year 4 Flax Workshop
This week children in Year 4 had their first gardening lesson of the year. The children were rippling and retting flax that had been grown on the roof. This process…
- 24th September 2019
Southwold Pupil Voice Fayre!
Southwold Pupil Voice Fayre!
Last week Southwold hosted the annual pupil voice fair to explore the responsibilities children might like to lead on this year. Children visited different stalls in the hall to talk…
- 6th June 2019
Lessons in Latin!
Lessons in Latin!
Last half term Year 6 spent an afternoon on Southwold's flourishing roof top garden with Cassie our gardener. They learnt about the impressive carnivorous plants and about how they catch, kill…
- 10th May 2019
Gardening like Mayans in Year 5!
Gardening like Mayans in Year 5!
Year 5 took part in a gardening workshop this week and it was linked to their History unit of Mayans. They learnt about what foods they ate, such as maise.…
- 26th February 2019
Lunchtime Gardening Club
Lunchtime Gardening Club
Lunchtime gardening club have been busy watering and weeding the garden with Cassie and Fran. With temperatures of 20 degrees, Spring is definitely in the air!
- 25th January 2019
A hat for Flaxman!
A hat for Flaxman!
The children in Year 4 have created an amazing, new hat for our friend the Flaxman. If you would like to say hello you can locate him on the glass staircase!
- 10th January 2019
EYFS hunting for snails!
EYFS hunting for snails!
This week children in Nursery had a gardening session with Fran. They went on a hunt for snails, trying to find the snails' trails. The children learnt that snail trail slime contains 97%…
- 14th December 2018
Year 2 make their own dye in the garden!
Year 2 make their own dye in the garden!
This week Year 2 children collected plants and flowers from the garden to make natural dyes. Then the used the dye to make prints and patterns on canvas.
- 14th November 2018
We’re going on a bug hunt…
We’re going on a bug hunt…
Year 1 went on the look out for different bugs and animals on roof top garden. They looked for clues such as tracks and footprints. Then they made their our own…
- 6th November 2018
Reception class get digging!
Reception class get digging!
The children in Reception Jay enjoyed their workshop with Cassie and Fran. They helped to tend to the garden; weeding and watering. The children also got to dig up some…
- 31st October 2018
Year 4 Flax Workshop
Year 4 Flax Workshop
Year 4 children were learning how to scutch, heckle and spin their homegrown flax fibre into a ball of linen yarn that will then be knitted into a hat for our 'flaxman",…
