Meet our Westport North School Garden Gnomes
Today our Head Garden Gnome received an exciting phone call from Jenna at Tui...we are the 2013 Primary Category winners of the Tui School Challenge!
Hence, its time we introduced the small group of volunteer parents and their families that are the back bone of our School Garden, they are the ones that apply for funding, turn up twice a week to run our lunch time garden sessions, muck in on the weekend to keep everything under control, and "creatively" source resources.
Without our Fantastic Garden Gnomes we would have no garden...
Mr Hitchens joined us this summer in the garden balancing things out by entering "Gnome mans land", and taking on our building projects with our Garden Warriors who embrace power tool challenges with relish!
Our original Garden Gnomes the "Gnoman Empire Builders"...Gardens rather than viaduct builders in this case...Mrs Smith-Edge & Mrs Ferrier were the two "Can do" mum's who took away the first trailer load of rubbish, and came back with a trailer load of tyres...and the rest is now history!
Mrs Skerten joined us this spring as our "Gnome on the Range" ... practical & well grounded (another Geologist!), stepping up to our cooking & building challenges, a valuable asset to our garden!
Meet Kamran, a recent school leaver who has joined us in the Garden this term to gain valuable work experience! Turns out he is rather in his element, and is not phased by any of our cooking challenges or the exuberant company, we look forward to providing him with a glowing reference!
Our School Principal Mrs Marsh (there's that Flower Fairy again, she pops up everywhere) has backed our Garden Gnomes all the way, trusting the creative vision to unfold...THANK YOU!
Last but by no means least...we need to THANK the Garden Gnome Families'!
All of our Garden Gnomes are working Parents, with Families' & employers that have tolerated and embraced the intrusion of the School Garden into all their lives...and put up with the unintentional "relaxing" of their normal household routines!
A HUGE thank you from every Garden Warrior, thank you for sharing your Parents with us!
Our School Garden has "Sown" us for Life!
We are very blessed to have such a wonderful, passionate group to 'lead the charge' with our garden :-)
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