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On this page we'll describe some of the interesting and fun activities and projects we have completed in partnership with schools.

Project Profiles

East Renfrewshire Council Environmental Regeneration Grant helps to enhance woodland at Glenwood Nursery School
"Magic Mushrooms" appear in the miniature woodland
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Latest stage of a long term project completed at Glenwood Nursery School
In March 1995 our predecessor, the Carts River Valleys Project, got together with Glenwood Nursery School to celebrate European Nature Conservation Year by planting a "Miniature Arboretum" of native Scottish trees in a boggy corner of the school grounds.

Newts given a Helping Hand at South Primary School

Newt Paradise in the making at South Primary
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Green Gym volunteers complete final planting works

Final planting works were completed in the Wildlife Area at South Primary School in Paisley during May 2008.  Over the previous six months Carts Greenspace had been working with BTCV Scotland’s Renfrewshire Green Gym initiative and the staff at the school to transform an overgrown wilderness with a choked pond into a paradise for a threatened local population of Palmate Newts.  Enthusiastic volunteers from the Green Gym have repaired and painted the protective fence, cut back or uprooted unsuitable shrubs that were casting too much shade, realigned and thinned out vegetation in the previously choked pond, installed a donated old bath to create a new pond, constructed a raised bed for sun loving plants and creepy-crawlies which the amphibians need to eat and replanted the area with wildlife friendly species.  Access paths have also been improved so that the school can reach the area more easily.  In addition, four benches have been added to create an outdoor classroom.  These benches have been carved to illustrate some of the wildlife living in the pond.  Recycling has been a strong theme for the project.  As well as the old bath’s pond conversion, reclaimed paving setts were used to build the raised bed and the timber for the benches was sourced from trees taken down after storm damage, etc.

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We hope to update this page often with new photos.

If your school wants to create a more exciting outdoor learning environment, see our "Contact Us" page.

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