The club intends to focus on three areas of the department which will include Food Technology, Resistant Materials and planting and growing flowers and vegetables in our new Allotment area.
The club is open to pupils in Years 7 & 8 and following introductory sessions in our allotment pupils go on to attend the other subject areas on a rota basis throughout the school term.
We are currently growing a range of fruit and vegetable crops and are now about to move into the D&T workshop to manufacture bird and bat boxes, some of which will be housed and monitored by the club in the school grounds. We will then be accessing the D&T food room to cook with seasonal crops.
Future ventures will hopefully involve the girls in an enterprise activity in the local community to both raise awareness of our club and to raise funds to enable us to purchase more seeds and equipment for the future.
There is still room for new club members if you feel you are interested – just see Mr Radburn or Mrs Whitfield to let us know you’re coming!
Finally, as a department, we are very excited about this development and see it as a valuable experience for pupils (and staff) in that it is helping to develop their awareness of the environment, increasing their practical skills and ability in the different D&T areas and encouraging pupils to work in a way that has not been offered to them before.
Mr Radburn
Curriculum Leader in Design and Technology at St.Julie’s
Autumn term 2011 has seen the Dig it club membership swell with the addition of our new Year 7 volunteers.
The unseasonably warm weather enabled us to harvest the last of our summer produce from the allotment. We were then off to the kitchen to make pizza and garlic bread using the freshly picked tomatoes courgettes and fresh herbs We have also saved the dried beans ready for planting next year.
Now approaching half term and after some very wet weather, we're back in the kitchen baking cookies for Halloween.
Mr Radburn, Mrs Whitfield and the other members of staff dressed for the occasion and Mrs McKeown even made a delicious pumpkin soup served in a pumpkin which was devoured in record time.
Mr Alderman then came up to judge our 'Scary Halloween cookie' competition and presented prizes to the winners.
Next term sees us welcoming visitors who will advise us on making our own wormery and we will be adding more diverse growing mediums to our allotment.
The pictures show a potted history of our progress this term.
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