On May 3rd the "Get Hovingham Healthy Forum", met to discuss our aims and objectives for our "Celebrating the Environment week", which is planned for the week commencing May 21st. It will be a fabulous themed week for the last week of this half term.
Despite fewer people coming to the meeting, we still had representation from children, parents, governors, and staff, and everyone that came had lots of excellent ideas to share.
Here is a copy of the letter sent out after the meeting.

Get Hovingham Healthy Forum

Excellent ideas for our Environment Week! Many thanks to those who came to our forum meeting to make plans for our Environmental week, which will take place in the week before half term.Here are the super ideas that we came up with
  • Making a Nature Trail around the school grounds.
  • Planting flowers, vegetables and trees.
  • Visiting a local private woodland.
  • Putting more bins in the school grounds.
  • Getting the school grounds tidied up and the bushes cut back- to make sure the grounds are safe for children to explore and enjoy.
  • Helping keep it tidy by litter picking.
  • Remove weeds.
  • Bird watching, and writing a bird guide to Hovingham.
  • In Numeracy making tallies and graphs to show the number of different types of birds, or minibeasts seen in the grounds.
  • Making a sensory garden, with plants to look at, feel, and smell.
  • Minibeast hunts, and finding out all about them, and mapping where they are found.
  • Visits to the allotments across the road to find out about all the different things grown there.
  • In literacy writing stories about plants and animals and using the grounds as a setting for our stories.
  • In literacy, writing guide books and signs for the Nature trails.
  • Writing poems.
  • Drawing, painting and taking photographs of the school grounds, and then following up with pictures taken in each season to see the changes.
  • Making a space for a display of artwork inside the school, celebrating the outside environment.
  • Learning songs about looking after the world around us, and changing the words to make our own Hovingham song.
  • Plant colourful flowers outside the PDC.
  • Making maps to plot the nature trail.
  • Pond dipping, recording the finds and making graphs.
  • Making hanging baskets to hang in the school entrance.
 With all these fantastic ideas, we should have a very exciting week from May 21st, when we will be “Celebrating our Environment”.  Information will be sent out to you nearer the time, so that you will know about all the activities taking place, and I do hope that you will enjoy joining in with our celebrations. Many thanks again to everyone at the meeting.


.....You can see from all these super ideas, it will be a great week. Fingers crossed that the weather remains as wonderful as it is now, and then I'm sure all of us will really enjoy celebrating our wonderful environment.