Saturday 25 June 2011

A New Hope

Today we have sourced a new supplier for the excavator together with all the required health and saftey  requirements.

A great thanks go out to Sirius Construction and Scott Plant Hire who are providing the Excavato, operator and foreman at no charge for the day.

July 1st it is!

Wednesday 22 June 2011

A Minor Setback

We took the decision today to postpone the day of the Big Dig.

Following a complication with the supply of an excavator, a call to the council to source a new supplier brought up more questions than answers.

In order to comply with Council's extended Health and Safety requirements we decided to spend more time to get it right

Friday 17 June 2011

Our fabulous contributors

The Pond committee would like to thank Naue & Co for supplying the pond layering in sufficient quatities to cover the two hundred square meters of the pond.

We would also like to show our appreciation form First Direct, The Co-Operative Building Society, The Dragonfly society and the PTA for donating the funds requied to see the project through from start to finish.

The day of the pond excavation is set for 23th June

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Plans are Afoot!

The Pond Committee meet once more.

David Fanaroff has designed a new pond and surrounding area. The committee agree to go ahead with the plan.

We discuss the specifications for the pond dipping and the study shelter.

Paul Freeman agrees to go away and draw up specific, architectural, plans for both platform and shelter.

Meeting adjourned

Wednesday 1 June 2011

What's Happening

The pond committee first met a few months ago following the desire that the school pond needed some serious work to ensure that it could be used by the school community.

A brief meeting a review of the pond established that it was not fit for purpose in it's current state.

The original excavation and placement of pond layering had been inadequate and the pond was unable to hold water in sufficient volume for it to be used effectively.

A discussion took place to establish whether we could add to the current layering or whether a more drastic course of action was necessary

Following the completion of discussions we adjourned to consider options.

Our second meeting established the need to start from scratch and following an offer to supply new pond layering free of charge we drew up plans to re-design the pond and surrounding area from scratch.