A NEW garden named after a teacher who taught at a Upper Wharfedale school 140 years ago has been officially opened.
Sir Julian Smith, the MP for Skipton and Ripon, visited Kettlewell Primary School to officially open the new Carradice garden in early October.
The Carradice garden is named after the first teacher at Kettlewell 140 years ago.
The garden was created using grants for outside learning and the work was carried out by Warwick Beecroft.
The school now has a pond, raised planting beds, fruit trees, herb garden, bug hotels and bird boxes with birds already nesting in them.
Claire Greenwood, co-executive headteacher at Kettlewell, said: “Outdoor learning is at the heart of our curriculum and the new garden will allow us opportunities to plant and grow vegetables as well as explore pondlife as part of our science curriculum,”
One of the children at the school also said: “We have all our own equipment now to plant and grow and we are looking forward to our first harvest.
“All the herbs in our herb garden smell delicious and we are going to ask our cook Lucy to use these and our vegetables.”
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