Blythdale Garden

11th April 2025Lee Wilkinson

We extend our gratitude to the following companies and individuals for their invaluable assistance in transforming our Dales School Garden into a remarkable space for our children. Throughout the year, the garden serves as a venue for classes to engage in planting and growing activities, as well as for the garden club and Forest School. Without the support of businesses and individuals, we would not have the necessary resources to bring this vision to life.

D A Johnson

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to D A Johnson for generously supplying us with 5 tons of topsoil. This will be utilised by all our classes as they engage in the growing and planting theme during the summer term.

Craig Langlands

We would like to express our gratitude to Craig for supplying the cable reels, which have been transformed into tables and one will soon be used as a slide for the children during forest school sessions. Additionally, I appreciate the wood provided to assist in the construction of our planters.

High Sheriff Awards

11th April 2025Lee Wilkinson

On March 25th, the Garden Club team had the honor of attending an awards ceremony organised by the High Sheriff and presented by local celebrity Alexander Armstrong. This event was far from pointless; it was an extraordinary evening. The Dales School received a grant of £1,000 to support the purchase of equipment for the after-school and dinner-time Garden Club.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to High Sheriff Lucia Bridgeman for orchestrating such a remarkable event.

Winter Forest School Fun

20th February 2025Lee Wilkinson

We’ve had an absolute blast during our first winter term at Forest School! The kids have really embraced the chance to build resilience, tackle problems, and, most importantly, enjoy playing together.

Take a look at all the incredible activities we’ve been up to!

 

Mud Kitchen fun

Cooking sausages for Burns Night and practicing fire safety

Learning about Knights and making our own bow and arrows

Whittling

Hammock fun

Wooden Cookie Tattoo Art

 

New Fire Pit & Shelter

20th February 2025Lee Wilkinson

A wonderful new feature has been added to Blythdales Forest School garden! AB Playgrounds has set up a fantastic Fire Pit Shelter, which will allow us to enhance our fire safety and cooking skills all year round.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to AB Playgrounds for their outstanding work and to The Harrison Foundation for funding this project. We truly appreciate your support!

Garden Club

16th September 2024Lee Wilkinson

We have had so much fun in the Gardening club last term. The children stayed behind for the after school club and worked very hard planting vegetables in our growing and planting area. We are looking forward to eating the lettuce, Radishes, Beetroot, tomatoes and peppers we have produced. Well done to all the children involved.

We look forward to working with a new group of children this year, to learn gardening skills together and to grow and eat our delicious crops.

Planting Area

20th May 2024Lee Wilkinson

We would like to say a big thank you to D A Johnson for helping us to start off our growing and planting area. Thank you so much for the topsoil.

With help from the Greggs foundation we are able to create our fantastic growing and planting area. This week we have planted carrots, beetroot, peas, radish and strawberries. We can’t wait to pick them and turn them into delicious meals.

Volunteer Gardening Afternoon

20th July 2023Lee Wilkinson

Thank you to the fantastic staff from Avery Dennison and Northumberland County Council.

A big thank you to Arther Cranson,  Parks and Green Spaces Officer for organising colleagues from Northumberland County Council, Nicola Birch and Lorinda Lakey – Doorsamy for organising the Avery Dennison team.

Thank you to Dave Johnstone from D A Johnstone plant hire, for providing the weed barrier for the garden and Leon Savage from NCC for providing the wood chippings.

The team worked throughout the day to transform the garden. Arthur Cranson made some amazing raised planters that will be used in the growing and planting area. The team from Avery Dennison moved tons of bark, painted and weeded the garden.

Thank you so much for your help.