Year 3 visit RHS Gardens Wisley

In their Science lessons girls in Year 3 have been learning about the different parts of plants and how things grow. In support of this topic they recently embarked upon on a visit to RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) Gardens Wisley, in Woking.

Founded by Victorian businessman and RHS member George Ferguson Wilson in 1878, Wisley is one of the great gardens of the world. The site covers 240 acres and, in addition to numerous formal and informal decorative gardens, several glasshouses and an extensive arboretum, it includes small scale "model gardens" which are intended to show visitors what they can achieve in their own gardens at home.

During their visit the girls looked at, and learnt about, a huge array of flowers and plants and spent time in the fabulous Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden. In the enormous glasshouses they saw banana plants, orange and lemon trees, and found out about root systems and seeds. The Herb Garden was very popular with the girls, who happily sniffed out many herbs they knew, as well as some they did not!

It was a hugely interesting and useful day for the girls – bringing everything they had learnt about in the classroom to life!