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• We’ve gone wildlife mad!

  
  

  Wire sculptures inspired by wildlife … And bird houses made from old flower pots and woven branches…ingenious…

• Spectacular Seating

  
  

  At the beginning of term we went to the school to introduce the project to the young people Student Emma set the young people a challenge to make achair that would take their weight out of paper to demonstrate how strong some materials are and to teach about weight bearing.Some used some of their time […]

• woodwork workshops

  
  

  Learning loads of new woodwork techniques Learning to chisel I love my pine cone…. Making a hole for the mallet handle with an auger….

• Boot Up Booty Boxes

  
  

  The mission was to make some individual wooden boxes for everyone to keep our woodwork projects in. Lots of funky ideas were designed on paper then to get to work…. Styling the boxes Designing and decorating the hinges Individual designs done with a flame torch

• Happy Christmas from Boot Up!

  
  

• Apple Day!

  
  

  Toffee apples galore!!

• Colourful PolyTunnel

  
  

  Laverta, PSB, nasturtiums, tomatoes and purple dwarf beans…. lovely

• that pesky spy-cat!

  
  

  Look who’s been climbing UP the poly tunnel! Now that’s art 😉

• …JAMMING!

  
  

  Wow! well done team! green purple beans, damson and blackberry and apple jam. Delicious! Damsons are stewed in a little water, the stones removed, then sugar added and boiled.What an amazing colour!

• Harvesting reading for…..

  
  

  Look! there’s cherries too!What beautiful fruit!Hannah and Kim pick the damsons (in the rain!)Apple trees…

• Early summer in the Poly Tunnel

  
  

  Hannah planting out purple sprouting broccoli to harvest in spring 2012The heads from last year’s purple sprouting broccoliA very happy butterfly explores the poly tunnel (ready to lay eggs on our new PSB?!)

• days of dreaming