Top of the class - again!

Halsall St Cuthbert’s Primary School was again awarded first place in the Lancashire Best Kept Village's Best Grounds awards.

And competing against nearly 50 other villages, it makes the award quite a significant achievement.

The school boasts fabulous grounds including a wonderful school field, a fruit/vegetable garden, a faith garden, an extensive playground and wooden play trail, a shrubbery, lots of planted half barrels and a great range of bulbs and flowers that provide amazing colours throughout the spring and summer months.

Headteacher Doug Scholes told QLocal this afternoon: “This award is credit to Simon Bounds our gardener. He really takes great pride in what he does and he looks after the site brilliantly.

"Simon and his team carry out all the mowing, pruning, maintain the containers, do the watering, weeding and planting and they organise everything so well,” he added.
“Thanks also to our litter-picking volunteers who love to keep our school neat and tidy and well cared for. The team regularly scour the school site and the adjacent Bishop’s Walk Conservation Area looking for pieces of discarded rubbish," added Mr. Scholes.

"The Halsall Community Group and its band of volunteers also help with tidying and external mowing around the school and within the Halsall community. It does a great job. All the hard work has been worthwhile.

"Well done everyone!” he concluded.
Simon is pictured with some proud pupils.

This school deserves respect because they seem to care about children's knowledge, personality and emotional intellect. When I studied at High school, we thought too much about exams and many of us bought cheap assignment writing because we often had lack of time. So, it was a good way to have a rest.