Singlegate School BIOSTATION PROJECT
During the summer holidays of 2008 five volunteers from Sustainable Merton installed a pond based eco system at the school in Colliers Wood with the help of pupils, parents and staff.
A raised dry wall rockery was built and a selection of flowering shrubs, trees and spring bulbs were planted. Then aquatic plants for the pond, a shed, picnic table and picket fence completed the picture.
Dragonflies arrived from the day the pond was filled and were soon followed by frogs, newts, birds and other creatures.
The creation of the Biostation at Singlegate School has been an exciting and worthwhile project and is part of a bigger environmental awareness process going on at the school for which it was awarded the Gold Standard in the 2009 'London in Bloom' contest.
Sustainable Merton believe that projects like this are vital if our children are going to develop an interest in the beauty and sustainability of our natural environment and, in time, take on the role of protectors of that environment.
Are you a teacher?
Would you like to help bring the sustainability message to the classroom? Or perhaps your school would benefit from some added biodiversity or some reduced CO2? What would you like to do? Sustainable Merton would like to hear from you.
Grand opening of the Biostation by Merton's Mayor on Thursday, March 2nd, 2009
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