Our Community Day June 2026

ARCHIBALD FIRST SCHOOL

This May, our fabulous governors approached our school family to come together for a community day. On the 6th June, over 20 families and a group of staff came together to look after our school grounds.

The day was AMAZING and every single person who came along was simply AWESOME.

Refreshments were provided along with a selection of tools, equipment and resources whilst many groups brought their own along to support the group efforts.

Our Achievements

Forest School Planters

We had a group of dads working together to rebuild three planters in our forest school area. Their children helped to measure and then held the wood as the circular saw was used (full supervision by own parent was had at all times).

The new planters look amazing and the forest school team are looking forward to adding hay bales to grow crops etc soon.

Planters and Vegetable Planters

Lots of people helped us to weed our planters situated around school. The donations of seeds and bedding plants were very gratefully received - thank you.

Together we created 4 new vegetable planters at the front of school. Some of our youngest children helped with this task. Each year group has recently planted seeds for the ingredients they need for their DT projects in the autumn term; we just just waiting to replant these at school so keep your eyes peeled!

A New Composter

Another incredible feat was making a new leaf composter from pallets. We love the sliding up/down door to enable us to get the compost from the bottom.

Another great team effort!

Our Mud Kitchen

Our mud kitchen was given a shade sail providing a little shelter from the elements. It was then thoroughly cleaned and transformed with a group of dads taking it on as a challenge to level it out and refresh the entire area. Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Refreshing Our Yard

This was no easy task and it took a village working together to refresh our yard spaces. Sweeping, weeding, jet-washing, refilling bollards and painting goal posts... What an incredible outcome from working together!

EYFS Woodwork

Another group of our fabulous community team tackled the woodwork in our EYFS area.

They did a tremendous job treating the wood to prolong its life!

The Next Community Day

Watch this space for the next community day which we hope to host in the autumn term. We would love you to join us and the whole family is welcome to come along. As the pictures show - we all took part from the age of 2 to 21 (wink).

It was a feel good day full of smiles, team work, comradery and purpose. Everyone came together for our school and our children, and we all went home feeling satisfied and accomplished!

Please do sign up when the next time and date is revealed.

And Finally A Thank You (we really can't say this enough)

Thank you to everyone who gave up an hour of their time to those who stayed the whole day. Thank you for coming along and entering into our list of jobs with enthusiasm and participation. The adults were all very well behaved but a special shout out must go to the children who were simply PHENOMENAL. They joined in, worked as a team, played together, kept themselves safe, asked for jobs and looked after one and another. They were all superstars and should be very proud of themselves and all their hard work (just like the adults).

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