WELCOME TO OUR BUTTERFLYPRESENTATION THIS IS A PROJECT FOR THE SCHOOL GROUNDS WE’D LIKE

BY THE OCTONAUTS

• Our idea is a butterfly garden/house on the bank in the far corner of the field near Mary’s bench. We will also be building an eco shed next door to it, where we can plant flowers in seed trays until they are big enough to go into the butterfly garden. This will be created out of two poly tunnels, with flowers in them and fencing positioned around them.

WHAT WE NEED

• 2x polytunnel

• Flowers – bushes and seeds

• Water butt

• Live butterfly gardens

• Fencing

• Guttering

• Seed trays

• Wooden shed

• Seeds

• Potting compost

FLOWERS THAT ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES

• Fleabane

• Cat mint

• Aluminium

• Butterfly bush

• Zinnia

• Blackberry bush

• Milk weeds

• Snap dragon

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

• We can observe the butterflies.

• It will be fun.

• It will develop our gardening skills.

• It is eco friendly and unique.

• It will help in art

• We can encourage butterflies into a new habitat

• The bees will be able to pollenate the flowers and collect the nectar – increasing the amount of honey produced

• People might wreck it.

• The flowers might not attract the butterflies

• The children might scare them off

HOW TO RESOLVE THESE PROBLEMS

The children will not be able to wreck the butterfly garden if we place fencing around it.

The children will not scare them away as they will not be able to go up onto the bank without permission. The bench will still be in use as the butterfly garden will be further back.

If there are teachers on duty we could ask them to make sure people don’t go in there without permission.

WHY YOU SHOULD PUT US THROUGH

You should put us through because we have worked so hard on this project. We have shared our ideas with the parents at home and also did a survey around the school. They voted for it as the best idea. This will benefit everyone, especially the children as it will help in art and science. It will be great fun and we can even make a butterfly club where pupils get to help out and plant flowers. We were the only people in the school to think of this idea, and it will be no bother to rebuild the shed if it breaks (which it won’t for a long while!) In the winter the butterfly garden can still be out, the big tree will shelter it. We really want this opportunity to make this amazing idea a reality.

OUR LEAFLETLET

THE PERSUASIVE LETTEROur amazing idea is to have a butterfly house and garden on the field. It will go near the bench on the bank. We have thought very carefully about this and hope you will like our idea just as much as we do.

This is a good idea because we could start a club about them. This would also be a good idea because it would help us in science studying small animals in their habitats and how things grow. We could also learn about looking after flowers, how they attract butterflies and what food butterflies eat. This will benefit the children and the butterflies. We asked the parents and did a survey around the school and everyone agreed that it was a really good idea.

This would last for a long time, as our fencing won’t rot for at least 10 years, and the poly tunnels and shed are guaranteed to last. The flowers will come back each year and we will be keeping caterpillars in each class so we will always have butterflies in the garden.

It will also work well with the bee project as the bees can collect the nectar and pollinate the flowers therefore increasing the amount of honey produced in the hives.

We have worked so hard on this project. It would be really fun and we would be delighted if this idea became a reality.

Yours sincerely,

The Octonauts

OUR MODEL

COSTSTHIS IS OUR SPREADSHEET.

items quantity costpolytunnel 2 £378.00 £756.00flowers 2 £3.25 £6.50water butt 1 £24.00 £24.00live butterfly garden 9 £13.99 £125.91fencing 30 £5.99 £179.70guttering 3 £41.99 £125.97seed trays 2 £3.99 £7.98zinnia seeds 2 £0.75 £1.50plants 1 £25.96 £25.96soil 2 £4.74 £9.48weed killer 1 £9.99 £9.99snap dragon seeds 1 £0.75 £0.75milk weed seeds 1 £1.10 £1.10shed 1 £125.99 £125.99

total cost £2,192.83

We will also buy moreflowers, bushes and seeds

Initially we will have a wooden potting shed and would then encourage children to collect plastic bottles so that we can build a greenhouse to encourage the seeds to grow.

KAFURO

As we have not spent all of our budget we are planning to make some of the money available for Kafuro school to develop their own butterfly garden in Uganda. The butterflies that live in Uganda will be different to ours and they will obviously have different plants.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Any questions?

THE OCTONAUTS

• Toby Frost

• Archie Jack

• Bethany Cole

• Tegan Lewis

• Oliver Keane

• Daisy Macdonald