Our S1 and S2 gardening group invite  you to celebrate Dunblane High School’s 50^th Birthday! The bunting made from repurposed school uniform from our school and its feeder primaries.  The DHS school motto takes central place, Prospice Ultra Montes – look beyond the mountains – encouraging us to be ambitious and meet new challenges.  We have made three mountains in the garden: Ben Ledi, Ben Vorlich and Ben Venue, part of our natural heritage that we are lucky enough to be able to see from school.

Bruce the Spruce, our resident Christmas tree is working overtime supervising the ceilidh on our dancefloor of reused tiles.  Bruce’s solar powered lights are twinkling as the wildlife (both real and mythical) struts its stuff – can you spot Nessie, a unicorn and a haggis? 

Two tennis rackets, represent the Murray brothers, an important part of our school’s heritage as our hall is named after Jamie.  The rackets also serve as festive balloons.  In front of Bruce, we have made the River Teith, a valuable part of Dunblane’s natural heritage and the focus of the famous Duck Race in the Dunblane Fling.

Our buffet table area is well-stocked with edible plants such as chives, tatties, strawberries, raspberries and lavender.  There are places to rest there if the party gets too much, with a hedgehog house, sweet pea covered story-telling tent and a bug hotel nestling under the buffet table. 

Never too far from the snacks, our cress-headed school choir are nearby, singing traditional songs and wearing kilts.

Geoffrey is our resident fieldmouse.  Lots of our new plants were nibbled up by Geoffrey and his friends, which was a bit of a challenge, but he is so cute we didn’t really mind!

The DHS gardening group is run by volunteers from the community and our local zero waste shop, Weigh Ahead, has provided us with grant money to help create our garden. 

We have had great fun exploring our school’s heritage and we hope you have enjoyed the party!