This week, the TCV Glasgow team has been working on creating a garden space for St Charles’ Primary in the West End. The school is an old building dating from 1901, and has a narrow, north facing space at the front which was overgrown, uninviting and unused. Until Team TCV stepped in!
Unfortunately I don’t have pictures to show the transformation, as I forgot my camera. But weeds were removed, scraggly bushes were uprooted, a whole heap of topsoil spread (with the enthusiastic ‘help’ of some P3/4s – I dread to think what their mums said when they arrived home with half a flower-bed stuck to them, but they certainly enjoyed themselves).
The site is now a useful area featuring a story-telling area with stumps to sit on, a bug motel, bug-boxes, bird feeders and some shade-loving plants which are also good for birds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The kids got involved by helping us put together some bug-boxes and make bird-feeders. Primary 1s and 2s really love pressing the button on the electric drill and screwdriver….