by PKDofE | Apr 5, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Megginch Castle, News, The Starfish Way
We had a lovely session at Megginch, cooking toasties and helping the volunteers in the garden. Students planted potatoes and helped prep the new veg beds. Volunteers were so kind and helpful, a really great way to spend the afternoon. We had Morag, Jenny and...
by PKDofE | Jan 29, 2023 | Megginch Castle, The Starfish Way
This week Jacob has been making delicious sun dried tomato, pesto and mozzarella toasties and as you can see when the toasties were being cooked in the Coorie House, Inka the dog was very interested in what was happening and wanted to have a bite! What do you usually...
by PKDofE | Jan 27, 2023 | Megginch Castle, The Starfish Way
On Wednesday we enjoyed a very productive Starfish Way session with Young People from Perth High School. Kyle and Charlie did some volunteer gardening in the walled garden. They dug a trench for drainage. And then we look at some first aid skills preparing them for...
by PKDofE | Dec 2, 2022 | Megginch Castle, Skills Development, The Starfish Way
This week our open group of Starfish Way participants started making beeswax wraps, which is a more sustainable way to using cling film. Our young people cut out an old piece of fabric and then they shaved the beeswax particles onto the fabric to cover the whole...
by PKDofE | Nov 24, 2022 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Megginch Castle, Outdoor Learning
Dog Training at Megginch Laura from Bullerz K9 is joining us at Megginch for the next few Mondays with her lovely dog Cairo to help young teenagers learn a bit about dog ownership and training. We all had a lovely first session together talking about breeds, common...
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