Invitation to a Free Spring Term School Gardening Event

The RHS Campaign for School Gardening has a Regional Advisor working throughout the Yorkshire and Humber area with 10 Partner Schools to develop teachers’ practical horticultural skills, assist the development of school gardens and embed the rewarding practical activities that children enjoy so much into the curriculum whilst encouraging healthy eating and a love of the green environment.

In the last academic year two training sessions have been offered to assist staff in other schools to develop their school gardens The previous sessions concentrated on the design of the school garden, crops to grow, curriculum and web links, the gardening calendar as well as practical tasks such as seed sowing and planting.

If you are a Teacher, teaching assistant or parent helper we would like to invite you to the training session to be held at your nearest Partner School. We can accommodate up to 3 participants from each school attending the training, subject to a maximum of 25 overall. This training is free and will include practical advice from John Heckling, the Regional Advisor, to assist you to develop gardening in your school.

Topics to be covered

·Seasonal practical activities

·Prepare your school garden for the growing year ahead

·Create a checklist of all the things you will need for the season ahead

·Decide what to sow and grow in the spring and summer

·Developing your school garden with compost heaps and wormeries