THE ARMY has helped a village school add a growing centrepiece to their learning garden.
Pupils at Dallas Primary enlisted the assistance of a school parent and some of his fellow 53 Field Squadron Royal Engineers in erecting a polytunnel and fencing on nearby land gifted to the school by Dallas Estates.
Head teacher, Mrs Mairi Grant, said: “One of our dads, an engineer from Kinloss, proposed that the Army could build it as a community project. They completed the task free of charge – we just had to provide the materials … and their lunch!”
Dallas Primary has had a productive school garden for years, growing fruit and vegetables, but now aims to fully integrate gardening with the curriculum.
At the end of the 2020/21 school year, they applied for an Education Scotland ‘Food for Thought’ grant. Dallas Estates then gifted land suitable to erect a Polycrub with the eventual aim of creating a community garden.
The ground was cleared and levelled then the pupils raised sponsorship for fencing and raised beds.
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