The Bug Hotel

Before the end of the summer school term Wasing’s gardens team donated wooden pallets to Grazeley Primary School to be repurposed by the year 6 Eco-Champions.

The year 6 Eco-Champions have been working on a project, to improve the schools outside environment by growing their own plants for pots around the school. The final big project they wanted to carry out before they left for secondary school was to build a bug hotel.

With Wasing’s old wooden pallets they were able to succeed, the Eco-Champions worked hard and are delighted with the end result.

This photo was taken just before a green living roof was added. They even named it, The Bugeley Hotel!

This was a special project to be a part of, not only because it is teaching the younger generation the importance of the natural environment and how to care for it, an integral part of Wasing’s ethos, but also because there are a few personal connections to Grazeley Primary School. Mrs Hoskins the school’s Office Manager and wife to our Head Gardener Tom, helped organise the donation of the pallets and their daughter who attends the school, will get to see all the improvements made by the Eco-Champions first hand. Mrs Lowe, the year 6 teaching assistant who organised and ran the school project is also mum to one of the Farming team at Wasing! It’s a small world!