As we arrived on the allotment we were sad to find a bat lying on the ground. The bat was ‘not moving’ and the children became very worried when they spotted a cat nearby. We decided to move the bat into the safety of our allotment. One of our grown-ups put on a glove so she could safely move the bat and we placed it in a dark corner but not before the children had taken a look. Many had never seen a bat so close up before.

One of this weeks jobs was to chop up all the branches we cut down last week and create fire wood for our forest schoolers. The children were amazing at removing leaves from the branches before we cut them up using our loppers. We also realised that we have many, many apples, plums and pears which were ready to eat. One of our grown-ups shook the trees and all the fruit fell down onto the ground. The children collected it and placed it into our big orange buckets. We then counted out the apples and placed them into bags to sell in our nursery shop. It looks like there may be lots of apple crumbles being made tonight!

This week, we had a very special visitor join us at the allotment. Bunny had decided to help us however Bunny spent his day relaxing in our herb garden on a garden bench! Whilst everyone else had a power snooze on the bus back to nursery, Bunny enjoyed a cuddle with his favourite person. Thanks for all of your ‘help’ Bunny.