Our school had a thriving nature area that children were able to play and explore in, using nature to making dens and hiding away. 

We grew apples and pears and managed a small harvest of rather hard olives. 

Then we made apple-based products, including apple cider vinegar, to help our learners understand more about where our food comes from and the many different things we can do with it.

It has also been a space just to be mindful.

But erosion, and the movement of Primrose Hill, has necessitated some boring, but essential work - the mending of our retaining wall. 

While it has been exciting to have a buttress - helping us teach about forces, angles and the building of medieval castles - we are looking forward to having full access to our site again. 

We lost our garden, our fruit trees and a space to hide and play. We will be left with a barren desert. 

We could live with a tundra landscape that supports our learning about habitats, but we need our garden back.

We want to replant our orchard and a berry garden, create a small allotment plot, merge the chicken garden with our new space and convert the chicken coop - we did successfully have laying hens - into a greenhouse.

We would like to turn some space into a log-circle, do some planting that creates a woodland and wild flower habitat and design a forest school curriculum that lets us create some mini-beast habitats, then maybe learn to tie a few knots, collect the colours from nature's pallet and classify the leaves on the trees...

We plan and hope and seek a community around the school that is interested in supporting learning and more importantly in enabling our children to have an appreciation of nature, the hands on experience of using it and the chance to make and watch things grow. 

It is the small acts and opportunities that make a difference to how our next generation will use and look after nature. 

With increasing numbers of children not having access to nature spaces and gardens we do see it as our responsibility to make it happen in school.

This is part of the ‘seeking’ and our collective social responsibility. 

If you want to help our young people enjoy and learn from nature, understand how to protect nature and grow some plants and vegetables then we need your help. Money, resources or expertise - we really look forward to hearing from you.