Grange Farm Energy School Trip

Over the past 12 months we have been working with My Square Metre to enhance the biodiversity at Grange Farm through wildflower planting and habitat creation. There was an opportunity here to combine this workstream with our ongoing community engagement work, and so we contacted Scampton School regarding the potential for a visit to Grange – just a 10 minute coach trip from the school!

On the day, the site hosted the older children (years 4 – 6) in the morning session and younger children (years 1 – 3) in the afternoon. They got a site tour and also took part in educational activities such as a scavenger hunt and seed-bomb making. The biodiversity enhancement work we have completed was tied into the school curriculum, with the children continuing their learning about the importance of biodiversity and the environment. They also learned about the AD process and how crops grown in their local area are being used to create green gas.

Charlie Hebborn, Head Teach at Scampton spoke after the trip, “Thank you to everyone who arranged our visit today. It was great. Back in school we had started the day with an assembly when we talked about the importance of gas and biodiversity to enable crops to grow and feed the digester. It all came together beautifully. We will be using the visit to kick start a project our upper juniors will be doing that will be showcased at the Lincolnshire show.”

It was an extremely positive day, and pleasure for us to host the school. All the kids were interested and engaged throughout and a credit to their school – a particular highlight was being able to sit in the telehandler and then watching the site operators load the hopper and exploring the site’s wildlife area. A learning experience for FB as well as the first event of this kind that we have hosted. Thanks to everyone involved on site who helped put on a great day!