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New from Airfield's Education Programme
The builders are here and working away, but while the gates of Airfield are closed the work to bring a little piece of it into the city continues. The school gardens that we have been working on in Holy Child pre-school and Mater Dei N.S have weathered the winter well and are still full of colour and life with the bulbs planted last autumn.
We are leaving it as long as possible for the spring tidy up so as to get the last out of them.
In a few weeks time we will descend on both schools with our army of helpers from RSA Ireland, who generously give up their time to support Airfield's outreach programme. They will be joined by the gardeners from third class who are ready to flex their green fingers and get down in the soil again.
Sadly Gráinne, the teacher who was central to the development of the garden in Holy Child, passed away at Christmas last year and we are working with the children and teachers to create something that will honour her memory and her love of nature.
We have just embarked upon a project with artist Jane Groves, where each child will make a ceramic bird to place in the garden alongside the bird houses, made by the teachers. This project is due for completion in May when we will install the finished work in the garden.
To see information about our new animal arrivals at Airfield have a look here.
