Welcome to Mersey Park’s Outdoor Classroom
School has developed an outdoor classroom for use by all members of our school, to take their lessons outdoors and see learning from a different perspective. It is divided into three zones: Woodland Zone, Meadow Zone and Pond Zone.
This Woodland Zone has mature trees, including beech and oak and a fire circle, for classes to use as a meeting point. There is a fire pit inside the circle, used by the Outdoor Adventurer’s Club as part of their after school activities. The club make dens, play team building games, and enjoy a variety of outdoor crafts. In the Meadow Zone, the Eco Team have planted hedgerow shrubs, perennials and sowed wildflower seeds over successive years, in order to promote biodiversity. It is an open area of land, used for games and lessons. Our Pond Zone was completed in 2023-24, kindly funded by The Wirral Society. This area is fenced both for safety and as a quiet space for wildlife to thrive. We have benches and planters in this area and pond dipping has also taken place as part of the Science curriculum. Our Eco Team do regular litter picks, leaf litter collections and general maintenance of the site every year.
Hedgehog Friendly School Award.
School is currently working to gain the Hedgehog Friendly School Award.
Please click on the links below for further information:
What is a Hedgehog Friendly School
The British Hedgehog Preservation Society
A UK Charity dedicated to helping & protecting hedgehogs native to the UK. Includes advice about what to do if you find a poorly hedgehog and how to help hedgehogs at home.
We want to make sure the hedgehog, the UK’s only spiny mammal, remains a common and familiar part of British life. Includes a link to The Big Hedgehog Map.
Eco Team Update.
School Allotment
The school has a wonderful allotment that has been created to allow the children to learn how to plant, grow and harvest their own produce. The allotment contains a wide variety of different fruits and vegetables, as well as lots of learning prompts for the children to access. There is a wormery and bee area that are used to teach the children about the important role these insects play in our ecosystem, as well as a small pond.
In 2024-25, our ‘Sow Box’ project began, kindly paid for and organised by our PTA. Each class had a box filled with materials and tools to sow and care for seeds in class. When the seedlings were ready, these were taken by children and planted out in the allotment. Every class has had the opportunity to visit the allotment and explore, as well as plant our and care for the fruit and vegetables grown there. Vegetables grown in the allotment, such as onions, garlic and potatoes, have been used as ingredients in DT food technology lessons. We hope this cycle will continue every year now.
Allotment Grand Opening
Our Eco team, school governors and a local councillor attended the official opening of our fantastic allotment.
