It’s been a few months since we decided that our replacement for the Fair Field school pool would be a garden but we haven’t been idle. Parent Lew Cohen – working with teacher (and leader of the school’s gardening club) Jacqueline Voyce and with pupils from every year at the school – has just delivered a really exciting concept drawing that lays out the options for the new Fair Field garden. It’s not final – we now need to come up with a detailed design and we’ll then need to raise funds to do the work – but it’s an inspiring outline of what we might achive.
Jacqueline has been careful to make sure that the garden can be used in classes and that every year at the school will be able to make use of it in the curriculum. The design is sustainable – lots of reuse and very little new building – and it should be possible to plant it in such a way that it can be looked after easily by pupils with some volunteer help. We’re also determined that the final design will be 100% accessible for all pupils and visitors.
So this is an exciting moment and we’re all very keen to get on so if you have specific skills: in garden design and fund raising specifically, we’d be thrilled to hear from you. Send me an email.
Click the picture for a bigger version. Some pictures of our most recent visit to the pool.
