Some of us arriving by bike and others doing a lovely run through the park from the leisure centre, we had a fun evening cutting back low-hanging branches and building new dead hedging at Holy Trinity Lamorbey Primary School.

It's so rewarding doing tasks like this, supporting organisations that find it hard to get the work done otherwise.

And who knew that creating hedges from sticks, branches and tree cuttings could be so addictive. We didn't want to go home!

We'll be back again in July. Meanwhile, next week we're heading to Hook Lane Primary School for the first time, to help spruce up their outdoor learning area. We've put in a request for more sunny weather, so come and join us.

When Holy Trinity Lamorbey Primary School had an unsafe tree cut down they wanted to make use of all of the wood. Part of their plan is to create wildlife habitats in the school grounds and we went along to help.

After a short walk from our meeting point at the leisure centre, we met Jane, the vice principal, who briefed us about what to do.

We got busy breaking and cutting up the smaller branches into roughly half-metre lengths, and constructing them into brash piles.

(In case, like me, you were wondering about the word 'brash', its definition in this context is 'loose rubbish such as tree or hedge clippings'. You get to learn all sorts of things on GoodGym tasks!)

These piles will provide shelters and homes for wildlife such as hedgehogs, bugs and perhaps even frogs 🦔🐛🪲🐸.

It was surprisingly physical work and by the end of our hour we'd put in some good effort, had a great dose of fresh air and enjoyed lots of nice chat.

We're back at the school next week to work on the outdoor kitchen area, cutting back overgrown trees and bushes to give more headroom for the children to play. Come along and join us!

It was a lot of fun completing the transformation of the music room at Holy Trinity Lamorbey CE Primary School this evening.

We applied musical symbols to the walls 🎵🎶, lined noticeboards ready to display photos of pupils using the instruments, laid the instruments out around the room 🥁🎺🎻 and hoovered.

With the nicely organised storage cupboard and freshly painted walls from our previous visits the room looked great. It's been really lovely to see this project from start to finish.

Afterwards Jane, the school's Vice Principal, showed us the Sensory Room where we simply had to try things for ourselves - the giant beanbag seat with weighted blanket, the ball pit and the plasma ball amongst other things!

We're coming back to the school in May to work on creating wildlife habitats in their grounds 🐾🦔🐌🪳🐛. Hope you can join us!

Over a few visits we're helping Holy Trinity Lamorbey CE Primary School transform their music room from disarray to a neat and tidy, usable space.

A couple of weeks ago we had fun sorting out and organising the instruments. Who knew there is an instrument called a vibraslap?

This week it was painting, giving the walls a coat of magnolia to freshen them up.

What did the paint roller say to the wall? "I've got you covered!"

Jane, the school's vice principal painted and chatted alongside us. Perhaps appropriately for a music room, there were even moments of singing!

With the walls done, and rollers and brushes put aside, we celebrated Susan's 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th good deed with cakes 🧁. What a fantastic milestone 🥳!

We're back again next week to complete the project. We'll be applying transfers to the walls, putting up posters and setting everything up ready for the pupils to enjoy. Do come along and help us!

We had so much fun tonight, sorting out the musical instruments at Holy Trinity Lamorbey RC Primary School.

Jane, the Deputy Principal, explained that the music room had become a bit of a dumping ground and the time had come to give it a new lease of life.

We got busy adding the bars back onto xylophones and glockenspiels, restringing triangles and finger cymbals, mending jingle bells, testing the keyboards, checking the strings on guitars and organising the all the different recorders and percussion instruments into separate trays. 🥁 🎹

There was some spontaneous dancing with castanets 💃 , and our guitar-playing GG-ers gave us music while we worked. Our team photo was properly tuneful!

We'll be back in a few weeks to paint the music room so the nicely sorted instruments have a smart new home where the children can enjoy using them.