Gardening Club design and build garden at RHS Wisley

We were delighted that members of the Wyvern School gardening club spent the last 2 days at the RHS Garden Wisley ‘building’ a garden for the RHS Budding Gardeners Competition judged by Blue Peter Gardener Chris Collins. (Think mini Chelsea Flower Show!).

We had to send details of our design to the organisers before we started so that they could make up a label for us, our detail said.

"Our pallet is intended to stimulate the 5 senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste."

“To do this we decided to use lots of bright colours and include plants that are scented and have leaves with different textures. We put in some herbs that are scented but that can also be eaten.
We are hoping that it might be breezy so that our wind chimes make some gentle sounds”.

When we got to Wisley there was just an empty space, we even had to collect the soil to put in the garden.

Our finished garden, with flowers, herbs, a pergola (with climbing clematis), water feature, windchime, slate path.......... and a lot more:

Our garden will be on display to the visiting public at RHS Garden Wisley from Saturday 28 May until Sunday 5 June and, following judging, all pupils from our school will be given free entry to RHS Garden Wisley throughout May Half Term (Sat 28 May – Sun 5 June). Simply say the school name when entering the garden.

There are 32 different schools entered and the judging results are not yet in, but fingers crossed!

Even if we don’t win we have really enjoyed the experience so do go and look at the gardens if you have time over half term.

 

 

 

 

 

To celebrate William and Kate getting married the Wyvern School had a street party and their own wedding.
KS1, held a pretend wedding ceremony. This was followed by the wedding breakfast and then a good party.
The rest of the school had a street party, with music, finger buffet and sticky cakes. A special thank you to the parents for all the lovely cakes.

The afternoon was spent playing fun games such as egg and spoon races.

On Friday 18th of February we did something funny for money.
The Brookfield site had a Gruffalo day. They made Gruffalo cakes and enjoyed many Gruffalo linked activities. The day finished with the whole site watching a Gruffalo DVD.

The Buxford site had a mini fun fair, with lots of activities to choose from, such as push the weight, knock down the bottles, a one penny trail and even our own residential portrait artist. . All the children and staff had great fun and all the proceeds went to the Red Nose charity. In total the school collect £440.

On Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th March delegates from Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Latvia and Great Britain met at The Wyvern School to share progress on 2 themes:

1. Lifelong learning and
2. Inclusion for all with disabilities

Members of the Post-16 have been working with the British ‘group’ for the past year learning about beekeeping. This has included: making bee hives and frames, visiting an apiary to see working bees and setting up a new beehive and most recently we made some lip salve from the wax & honey.

To recognise the work that the students had been doing each of them was presented with a certificate:

Students from Post-16, together with 2 members of staff, prepared a fantastic buffet for each day with courses from each of the 5 countries which was a real experience. The delegates were very impressed.

On the second day the group were taken to Dover Castle where two Post-16 students acted as guides.

 

This article has been written by our FE students.

On Tuesday the 15 of February 2011.
PC Shane Green of the Metropolitan Police came in to give us a talk about his job. We also tried on some of his equipment, including his riot kit and handcuffs. The riot shield was very heavy. Everyone enjoyed Shane's visit and learned a lot about the Police and the law.

 

Today David Jackson came to the Wyvern School to carry out his amazing musical magic using his sound beam equipment.

This project is funded by the Highworth Grammar School as a part of their music specialism and community outreach project. It enables students from the Wyvern School to experience music making and interaction as a group. The year 10 students from Highworth came over for the day and worked closely with the Wyvern students. This is a great opportunity for the Highworth pupils to work with children with special needs. This project has been running for 3 years and is a really positive event for both schools.

Find out more about David Jackson here.

http://www.jaxontonewall.com/

On Friday 14th January a group of S11 students went to the Ashford shopping centre. They tested out a survey they had made on the school computers. They had to stop people and ask them thier own questions all around the theme, "where do you shop now the outlet centre has opened?"

 

Students from the Wyvern School were invited to attend the Disability Cricket Day at the home of Kent Cricket in Canterbury at the end of the school year in the summer of 2010.
The students were able to take part in some cricket skills activities including bowling, catching and batting at the fantastic ECB Cricket Factory Roadshow.
After some fun cricket activities the students were able to watch a learning disability cricket team take on a physical disability team in an exiting cricket match played in glorious sunshine.  

Wild Time at Howletts
Each year The Aspinall Foundation offer complimentary group entrance to SEN schools for an educational tour around one of their Wild Animal Parks at either Howletts or Port Lympne.
In 2010 a group of students from Wyvern took the opportunity to visit Howletts Wild Animal Park at Bekesbourne near Canterbury where they followed the park trail to seek out some of the world's most endangered animals.
The students were on the lookout for Big Cats, Elephants, Primates and Apes, all species which are becoming increasingly rare and endangered through loss of natural habitat, poaching and pollution throughout the world.

Wyvern School Students Triumph in the Kent Panathlon Challenge

Wyvern students taking part in the Kent Pentathlon Challenge sports competition represented Central Kent Schools in the county finals which took place in May 2010.

The Panathlon Challenge creates opportunities for students to participate in multi-sport competitions in various locations around the country. Over 2,500 people took part in 2010 and more events are planned for 2011.
Sports events include Boccia, Table Cricket, Polybat, Football (Ambulant and Powerchair), New Age Kurling, Athletics Field events (involving target bean bag throw, electric wheelchair slalom, indoor javelin, shot putt and ambulant long jump) and relay race events to include all abilities. 
After winning the regional Mid Kent & Ashford heat in April, a team of students from the school went through to represent Central Kent Schools at the county final which took place at the The Malling School near Maidstone in May.