Setting up a school garden
23 February 2010
Ince Children’s Centre, Wigan
The course will aim to deliver an insight into setting up an allotment/garden/nursery within the school grounds, to be used by students at key stages 2, 3 and 4. Areas covered will include; selection of the site, involving local business and finding funding, what do we grow (vegetables, nursery stock/plants for sale, wildlife gardens etc.), greenhouse gardening, propagation techniques – practical, requirements for delivering accredited courses (NVQ’s etc.) and links to the Sustainable Schools Framework, Outdoor Learning Manifesto, Eco-Schools and other areas of the National Curriculum.