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Garden Gang have been busily potting up strawberry plants over the past few weeks. Strawberry plants fruit during the summer holidays so we have decided to give them away to families who would like to try growing their own strawberries instead of keeping them in school where the fruit doesn’t get picked. If you have a sunny patch of soil or a pot in a sunny spot and you would like to have a go at growing your own strawberries then come and pick up a free plant after school today.
Garden Gang have been finding seeds in the playground. Plants make seeds after their flowers are pollinated. Some of these seeds will grow into new plants next year and some will be tasty food for birds over the winter.
P3 have been back in the garden and making the most of the sunny weather to look at pollinators. Here is a Marmalade Hoverfly feeding on a Calendula flower. The children noticed that the hoverfly looked like a bee or wasp and we learnt that this is called mimicry, where a harmless animal or plant mimics a poisonous one to put predators off!
We learnt some ways to tell if an insect is a hoverfly rather than a bee or wasp.