IT was all go in Woolmer Hill School garden when pupils and staff gathered together for a double celebration earlier this month.

This autumn, the RHS Campaign for School Gardening turned 10 and Wooolmer Hill joined other schools across the UK in hosting its own celebration, and serving up soup made from its own home-grown vegetables, as part of the first ever ‘Big Soup Share’.

Staff and pupils also celebrated their garden winning a gold medal in Surrey Wildlife Trust’s 2017 Wildlife Garden Award competition. Living proof of the wildlife-friendly nature of the garden was provided by two orphaned baby hedgehogs discovered there in July and now adopted by the school.

After spending several weeks of being expertly cared for at Hart Wildlife Rescue in Medstead, the prickly creatures were successfully re-introduced into the garden.

Pupils were invited to come up with names for the new residents and the male hedgehog was is now ‘Spencer’ and the female, rather aptly, is Hart.

Being nocturnal animals, Spencer and Hart are not out and about during school time.,

But they are being carefully monitored and pupils have been busy creating attractive habitats ready for their winter hibernation.