Wrap Around Care

Afterschool Club Plan Autumn 1 2024-25

This half term we are going to be garden designers! We will be learning about plants, recycling and animal habitats. We will be working with Community Club, to make over our school garden all ready for Autumn and Winter.

Week 1: Our Garden

· Look at our current garden and think about how we can improve it. What do we like? What can we improve? What does it need to be beautiful? Let’s share our ideas.

· Make a start at clearing away the mess and weeds. What can we do with the rubbish?

· Design our garden. We can draw, build, collage or whatever we choose to create the ideal garden for Malvern Wells.

Week 2: Seeds, bulbs and plants

· Look at flowers, plants and decide what we could grow in the garden in autumn and winter.

· Plant our own simple egg-box cress people. What makes a plant grow well? How can we make sure our garden has all of those things?

· Make our own seed bombs.

· Design our own seed or bulb packets. They could be magical, real, fruit, vegetable or flowers… what are your ideas? What would they need to grow? What will they be like?

Week 3: Pots and planting

· Decorate plant pots. Each person to decorate a terracotta plant pot using a material they like. What will you choose? Paint, fabric, stickers or even gems. Make your pot as crazy as you like!

· Plant up our pots with different winter flowers or bulbs. What can we plant?

Week 4: Upcycling for animals

It’s time to begin decorating our garden! But remember that our garden does not just belong to us. It also belongs to our animal friends so how can we make it a beautiful home for them?

· Investigate how we can upcycle. What is upcycling? How does it work? What sort of things can be upcycled? 

· Bird feeders: What can we use to make bird feeders? Can we design and make our own from recycled and upcycled materials such as milk bottles, drinks bottles, yogurt pots? What else do we need?

· Bug hotels: Make our own mini beasts homes then work together to make a giant group hotel for lots of different bugs.

· Water chain: See instructions. Let’s add a calming, relaxing sound to our garden.

· Bird bath: Make a pool or bird bath for the animals to drink from and wash in this autumn.

Week 5: Scarecrows

· What is a scarecrow? What are they used for and why? What makes the perfect scarecrow?

· Let’s get designing our own scarecrows.

· Build one or  two full sized scarecrows as a group to protect our school garden.

Week 6: Don’t Hog the Hedge

· Share the story “Don’t Hog the Hedge” and learn about hedgehogs.

· Make posters to share with our friends and families about protecting the country’s hedgehogs.

· Research how to make a hedgehog house using recycled materials.

· Build hedgehog houses as a group and leave them in forest school, all ready for their new prickly residents.

· Den building! Let’s be hedgehogs snuggling down for the winter.

Week 7: Upcycling old clothes and materials

· What can be made from old clothes to save them being thrown in the bin?

· Create new items from old clothes—Denim bowls, Lavender bags, Bunting etc

Week 8: Recycling food and water

· Learn about and share information about composting with the rest of school. Can we draw, design a PowerPoint, paint a picture to encourage the rest of the school to compost their fruit waste?

· Decorate a water butt for the school garden as a group.

· Make upcycled watering cans from drinks cartons or bottles to use in the garden.