Fruitful Helpers A
NEWS
retired couple who have helped to transform a school play area
have been rewarded for their eff orts.
Bob and Maggie Haslam, who live near the Gordon primary school, have masterminded a project which has given the school’s reception outdoor area a new lease of life.
The teachers and parents have been so pleased with their eff orts, they rewarded them with some tickets for a day out at Kew Gardens.
The couple, who have lived nearby for more than 25 years, have no connection other than Bob’s mother, who attended the school in the 1920s.
“It all started when someone asked us what vegetables might be grown there. We had a look and started having ideas about making some improvements”, said Maggie.
Since they began last spring, Bob, a retired electrical engineer, and Maggie, who was a physiotherapist, have donated and installed a fruit and vegetable garden, bird
boxes and
feeders, built planters and fi lled them with beautiful plants, set up a compost area, put up bamboo fencing and helped with the school’s forest school.
The couple are passionate about gardening and do much of the work in the holidays and weekends.
Teaching assistant Kelly Coleman said: “They come into the school regularly to help maintain the areas that they have set up and the children are always delighted to see them.”
The veg patch has been made out of an old sandpit, fl owers planted to attract insects and materials put out to attract bees and nesting birds.
“It’s rather a cool and windy corner of the playground, which makes it tricky, but it’s great to know that the children enjoy it; they have been very good and not damaged anything”, said Maggie. “It’s good to know that they get pleasure from what we’ve done.
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