Mrs Taylor undertook a review of the year R garden in July 2020 and identified the need for storage solutions that would enable a more streamlined and effective way of storing equipment in the year R garden.  Her proposed solutions were beneficial in that they would prevent both existing and new equipment from becoming damaged, as well as allowing easy access to the children to create a more enabling environment.  In addition to this she created a wish list of new resources that would develop children’s play and learning outdoors as well as encourage purposeful and meaningful activities that will facilitate learning.  The items identified would assist with maths, literacy, and the development of gross motor skills.   

Last year Hawley Almshouses kindly gave us a donation of £300, which enabled us to prove we had raised the £9,000 needed to secure the additional £3,000 grant from Morrisons so that we could complete the all-weather canopy project after a couple of years of fundraising.  The PTA committee figured we had nothing to lose by approaching them again to see if they felt able to make a donation towards the wish list and were absolutely staggered when they came back within a couple of days to say they would pay for the entire £900 wish list!