Some of these
courses, those designed especially for schoolteachers, take place at Assington Mill and are led by Mary McLeod, former
Education Officer at RHS Garden Hyde Hall. 
For more information please visit the website: www.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardening
or contact the RHS Education Team on schoolgardening [at] rhs [dot] org [dot] uk

Gardening in schools; further steps

Assington Mill, Suffolk

11 March 2010

You have started your school garden, but you would like to increase your skills, your gardening plans and activities for children. The course will include practical growing techniques and suggestions of what plants to grow where and in the right place for optimum success. Some curriculum related activities and some for use with gardening clubs will be included.

Objectives
1. To enable teachers to develop school gardening beyond the very basic.
2. To enable teachers to give children practical gardening experiences.
3. To help teachers increase their gardening confidence.

This course is designed to support the Campaign for School Gardening: Getting started and parts of Growing and Diversifying. (Level 2 and 3)

Key stages
The information developing school gardening further will be relevant to all key stages, however, any curriculum suggestions will be specific to KS1 or 2 only.

National Curriculum Links
(It may be that not all of these areas are covered on the day, but all can be delivered through school gardening.)

Key Stage 1 Science
Life processes
1 c. to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment
Green Plants
All areas of this section can be covered.

Key Stage 2 Science
Communication
2 a. Pupils should be taught to use scientific language and terms … and explain the behaviour of scientific things
Health and safety
2 b. recognise that there are hazards in living things
Life Processes
1 b. Pupils should be taught that life processes common to plants include growth, nutrition and reproduction.
Green Plants
All areas of this section can be covered

Micro-organisms
5 f. that micro organisms are living things organisms that are often too small to be seen and that they may be beneficial or harmful.

QCA Schemes of Work
Science 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A

PSHE and Citizenship
Developing a healthy, safer lifestyle: pupils should be taught what makes a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise and healthy eating, what affects mental health and how to make informed choices.

CPD Provider
Mary McLeod
Mary spent 25 years teaching in a secondary school and then became Education Officer at RHS Garden Hyde Hall. She is now doing freelance work as a regional CPD provider for the RHS, as well as leading other gardening courses.

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