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Young Minds Support

Please see below the link to the Young Minds Parent Guide on trauma, which was shared in Mr moroney's Headteacher's support letter, which was sent to parents/carers on 12th February 2025. 

https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/parents-a-z-mental-health-guide/trauma/

Year 8 pupils have been busy clearing the weeds and debris from the polytunnel and are looking forward to planting some veg here and on the compound at the back of science now that the ground is workable again.

Before Christmas, we bought some new leads and collars for the goats and pupils have enjoyed taking the goats for a stroll, weather permitting.

Over the harsh winter, pupils helped grit the farm first thing in the morning to make the area safe for everyone. When all the water on the farm froze up, they worked hard filling and carrying buckets out to all the animals. They were a huge help.

Pupils have also enjoyed putting up new hangers in the changing area and also repurposing some Christmas trees as scratching posts for the goats (after the goats had stripped all the greenery off them!)  Also, new scratching brushes have been fixed in the goat’s and Mabel’s area by pupils, which are being well used already.

Many thanks to Morrisons for the veg they kindly donated at Christmas, which helped out enormously in giving the animals a nice variety.

This week, pupils have been prepping the barns to house the animals at night as the temperature drops and winter properly sets in. The pupils painted lines on the floor as a guide to mark the bedding areas in each pen, which will be useful when cleaning and refilling the pens.

Various groups of pupils also made another boot cleaner after one of the brushes broke in the morning and by the afternoon, they added offcuts of wood and finished it ready for painting.

In addition to this, the Y8 pupils working on the allotment project have been working extremely hard, repurposing steel fence panels from the chicken quad and bringing them over to the farm to hopefully prevent any of the animals from eating the growing produce! The pupils are very enthusiastic and come in early to start promptly at 8am! It’s great to see so many pupils cooperating, bringing their own ideas and enjoying the work they are doing for the farm.  

Pupils have been busy on the farm this week cleaning in and around the barns in preparation for the animals to go in at night throughout the winter months. They have also been very busy cleaning out the fish tank and the dragon and snake vivariums. Y8 pupils have also enjoyed bathing the guinea pigs and shampooing and grooming the pony.

We also had toast donations from the canteen for the alpacas and many pumpkin donations following Halloween, which Mabel enjoyed as an extra special treat.

Farm club is very popular amongst our pupils and it is lovely to see so many of them enjoying it week on week.