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📍Walter Halls School NG3 5HS
Improving the children's school experience
Wed 21st May at 6:30pm
Nottingham Report written by Nottingham runner
A stonking 10 GoodGymers descended on Walter Halls School this week for an evening of garden renovation. We were back in the same area we started last time that is being turned into a pond and wildflower garden.
We welcomed Peter for his first session, which he took with gusto, swinging a pickaxe like a pro, taking turns with Peter and assisted by Dayna and Rosemarie with spades.
Debbie and Aj started off by collecting stones to put in the tyre planters, then topped them up with branches and soil.
At one point, Pete M and Dayna (the two tallest people) helped remove a rainbow tarpaulin from the wooden pergola as it had seen better days and Adele wanted to repurpose the material for something else.
Nigel, Rachel and Marta planted some wild flowers in the no-dig beds we created, and Marta did a lot of watering with Debbie
Leah and one of the school staff, Emma, headed off up to the entrance to cut down some branches that had been causing a trip hazard on the paths, loading them into one of the now-empty tonne bags for use later in the planters.
Busy busy busy! Too bad ITV cancelled on us at the last minute!
Wed 4th Jun at 6:30pm
Wed 14th May at 6:30pm
To help the volunteers make the gardens clean and tidy
Read moreWednesday 7th May
Marta earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.
Marta completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Marta was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.
Wednesday 7th May
Marta has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Marta is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.
Wed 7th May at 6:30pm
Nottingham Report written by Nottingham runner
GoodGym Nottingham felt all a bit Stone Age this week!
We were back at Walter Halls School with Adele, this time tasked with helping make over a patch of ground that will soon become a garden for the children to tend to.
Peter took a pickaxe to the patch marked out to become a pond. The ground there is pretty tough at the moment and Adele wants to have the kids help dig it out, so he was breaking it up and turning it over for them to make things a little easier.
Dayna, Vytautas and Rosemarie were digging holes to plant some of Adele's ferns and climbers – much tougher than it sounds with the hard soil, roots and rocks hindering progress.
Leah and Rachel were back shifting soil from a tonne-bag up on the hill down to the new garden space, and created a no-dig flowerbed with newcomer Marta getting the honours of sprinkling over the new wildflower seeds for her ingenious use of a big log as a hammer to get the little border fence into the ground.
We're back in a couple of weeks, hope you can join us!