Forset School & Outdoor Learning
Lowestoft in Bloom 2025
We are very proud to announce that the school has again received several awards from the Lowestoft in Bloom organisation. During a recent assembly, the Wildlife Wardens and Gardening Club pupils were presented with the following:
- Highly Commended - Silver for Best Outdoor Learning Environment
- Highly Commended - Gold for Best Vegetable/Fruit Garden
- Highly Commended - Gold for Diary of Planting
- A Special Achievement Award - for Everything we do at Carlton Colville. They were very impressed with our Outdoor Learning Provision!
Congratulations to all of the children involved and also our exceptional volunteers.
Mrs Gray and Mrs Carruthers.
Wildlife Wardens
We would like to say a big thankyou to the 2025 cohort of Wildlife Wardens, who have promoted outdoor learning across the school since February. You were all excellent at running wildlife activities in the meadow during lunchtimes in the summer term. In our weekly gardening club, you have grown such a variety of fruits and vegetables with the help of our amazing volunteers from the community. For our final session this year, we carved pumpkins.
We look forward to setting up the 2026 Wildlife Warden's / Gardening Club in February.
Mrs Gray and Mrs Carruthers.
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Lowestoft in Bloom 2024
We are very proud to announce that we have received four awards from Lowestoft in Bloom again this year.
- Gold award for the best Outdoor Learning Environment
- A special award for our amazing allotment.
- Winners for growing the tallest sunflower (172cm!!)
- The best gardening diary – completed by the children in the gardening club.
I would like to thank all the children who have been Wildlife Wardens over the past year. You have done so much to promote the love of wildlife and inspire everyone to make the most of our outdoor spaces.
A huge thank you to our allotment volunteers. David, Brian, Jackie, Jane, Maureen, Mr and Mrs Sturgess: we couldn’t do it without you. Our gardening club is an amazing place to learn and unwind!
Finally, a huge thank you to all the staff that have helped to create and maintain these inspiring outdoor spaces for our children to enjoy and learn in.
Mrs Gray
World Environment Day
On Wednesday 5th June, the whole school took part in World Environment Day. The theme this year was all about restoring and improving soil and this is the first year of a ten-year plan aimed at fixing the damage that has been done to our planet. Information was shared with the children in an assembly run by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
So what did we do? Early years made beautiful butterfly feeders and bug hotels. Year 1 made wildflower seed bombs and learnt about the importance of these flowers for insects. These will be scattered on our meadows to help our wildlife. Year 2 explored our wildlife area for existing insects and then discussed how to encourage more insects into this area. They created log piles, filled water trays and plant sunflower seeds. They also created some beautiful wild art out of natural materials. Year 3 and 4 worked completed a soil investigation with a member of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. Some children investigated types of worms on the school field, whilst others created PowerPoint presentations explaining why soil is so important to life on Earth. Year 5 investigated seed dispersal. Year 6 will be completing their activities on return from a school trip.
We would like to thank Suffolk Wildlife Trust for their help and resources! A great day was had by all. We are all very keen to start lots more new initiatives in our school to help the environment even further. Watch this space!