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As promised, the DT department spent our Tuesday after school tending to the roof garden crops and pot up our final window ledge plants from the food room.

We harvested some broad beans and some baby carrots to make room for the remaining carrots to spread into the soil!

As you can see, we had some humorous carrot characters!

STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK FOR MORE UPDATES FROM THE DT DEPARTMENT!

We hope you had a great relaxing half term break and got to spend some time soaking up the sun.

The DT Department are getting ready for another harvest of produce tomorrow during our weekly gardening club. I will fill you all in next Monday on how we got along, but for now, here’s a little filler post of some beautiful pieces of work completed last term by the Year 8 textiles students who worked on their own custom designed soft toys.

They worked on a range of industry standard skills to get to their final products including designing, adapting a pattern piece, pattern cutting, applique, embroidery, hand sewing and machine stitching. Some students went even further and designed and created clothing for their bears to wear.

These are some of my favourite designs.

As this is our last post before we go off on our Half term break and we haven’t got any new produce to harvest yet as most were newly planted last week.

here are some beautiful photographs of the roof garden as a whole.

We went up on the roof to check how our department offspring are getting along and had some quite surprising harvests since last weeks visit…

As you can see, we pulled some HUGE radish from the ground!

I think the size of them took us all by surprise considering the first lot that came out were the usual size that you would expect when you purchase them from the supermarket. I assume that the little heatwave we have had did them some good.

we only pulled up two carrots to see how they are progressing. They definitely need more time harvesting. We got one very small one and one long skinny spiralling shaped one. This just goes to show students how much process of elimination that supermarkets force farms to go thorough before fresh fruit and vegetables end up on shelves. I’m not confident that our spiral carrot would even make it into a ‘wonky veg’ bag.

Some more of our seedlings that we started off a few weeks ago in the food room have grown large enough to be transplanted up onto the roof.

Here is Head of D&T Mrs Barden & Mrs Spieler getting their hands dirty with some more planting on the roof.

We have some more tomatoes & Aubergine.

Again, Keep watch for more of next weeks progess!

The students of gardening club have been excited to see the fruits of their labour. It will take a good while before we get to see the progression of the Carrots but the Radish and Tomato are growing in considerable amounts!

Stay tuned next week for another update!