Wirral school secures £10k grant for nature garden

Jul 9 2008 by Matt Hurst, Wirral News Series

A SCHOOL has secured a grant to create a nature garden out of an area currently overgrown and little used.

Mount Primary School in Pleasant Road, Wallasey, is one of 43 organisations across the North West to receive BBC Breathing Places funding, and the only one in Wirral.

The school has been guaranteed £10,000 by the scheme, which aims to help people work together to create a “breathing place” for themselves and wildlife.

Headteacher Bernard Cassidy said: “We think it will bring something unique to the environment.

“While there are quite a lot of green spaces in Wallasey, they’re all landscaped.

“This will be somewhere habitat-based, an area where families and children can come to learn or spend some quiet time.”

The space concerned is a bank located to the rear of the school, currently overgrown and “not used for any purpose”.

Mr Cassidy says he hopes work will begin soon, with completion planned for spring next year.

He added: “The area will be based around nature and will have a sitting area used for mothers and tots groups and schools groups, as well as a worm and minibeast habitat.”

The grant is the second piece of good news for Mount Primary.

The school is also in line for £60,000 funding, through Creative Partnerships, as a reflection on its efforts to look outwards and to help develop a creative curriculum.