Worsborough Children Plant Flowers to Brighten Up Bank End
Caption: Bank End Junior Warden Team and Teaching Assistant Janet Nogowczyk (bottom, centre) with staff from Neighbourhood Pride and Berneslai Homes at the planting session at Bank End.
Children from Bank End Junior Warden Team in Worsborough Dale have been busy planting wild flowers as part of the Barnsley in Bloom campaign to enhance urban spaces.
In total 40 children from Bank End Junior School (aged 7 to 11 years old) have volunteered to take part in the scheme, which has been set up to engage young people and teach them to respect their community at an early age, so they will hopefully grow up to be respectable law abiding adults.
Ten children from the Junior Warden Team took part in the planting session on the bank at Thicket Lane, Worsborough Dale. The bank was chosen as an area for a natural planting scheme because of its poor soil condition and the scheme will be entered for this year’s Yorkshire in Bloom Awards.
Bank End Junior Warden Scheme was set up in September 2007 and has been developed in partnership with Berneslai Homes, Safer Neighbourhood Team, Neighbourhood Pride, South Yorkshire Police and PCSO’s and First Impressions Nursery in Ackworth. The scheme has showed partnership working at its best, with each service pooling its resources together to enable the scheme to develop.
As part of the scheme other activities which the children will be involved in include: tree planting; nest box building; hanging basket construction; and growing flowering plants and vegetables in the local community.
Berneslai Homes Impact Officer Ian Claxton adds, “The children have made a fantastic job of planting over 700 plants. Fingers crossed they should provide a lovely show this spring and should multiply in years to come. I would like to thank all the children for their hard work and good behaviour and they are a real credit to their school.”
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