What's the mattock?

7 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Nicky Woodall
Laura Barrett
Tamar Goudie (Tay)
David Barrett
Leanne
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York

Saturday 9th April 2022

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7 brilliant GoodGymmers headed to Woodthorpe Primary School (many post-parkrun and breakfast) to help develop their outdoor learning area.

Some pesky (and frustratingly hardy) nettles had returned since the last GoodGym visit so we focussed on deep digging of roots (where possible). For some (mostly David and Leanne), this involved some impressive mattock-wielding that yielded some equally impressive (and sometimes huge) roots.

The rest of used spades and forks and spent a happy hour digging weeds.

There's more to be done so I'm sure we'll be back!


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Woodthorpe School Nature Area
Developing a wild area in school grounds

We are creating a nature learning area in the school grounds so that all children can enjoy forest school, explore nature and benefit from being outdoors.

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