Build sustainable gardens
🐝 AGES 3+ ⌛ 8 WEEKS 🌤 ALL YEAR
Our goal for this program is to create a gardening community of kids, parents and teachers within your Early Childhood Centre or Primary School who can build, grow and maintain gardens now and into the future.
The full program runs across eight custom-made one-hour sessions, and will give everyone the skills and confidence they need to grow successful gardens. Each session will begin with a pre-class-briefing with your staff, then the rest of the time spent with kids, including plenty of time for questions. The classes work best with a max of 30 kids, however we’re always happy to work around you schools’ specific needs.
Both the Australian Curriculum and National Quality Framework (NQF) are integrated into our programs. And for the parents and teachers, the skills they’ll learn will last a lifetime.
We’ll provide detailed lesson plans to help you teach the program yourselves, as well as manage your garden for years to come.
BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM
Provide opportunities for kids to learn subjects not usually associated with the garden such as science, maths, social studies, languages, nutrition and visual arts.
Teach students valuable life skills such as responsibility, resilience and confidence while encouraging experimentation and healthy lifestyle choices.
Engage a range of different student learning styles in an ever-changing environment.
Give hands-on experience in design, construction, engineering, permaculture and sustainable horticulture.
Provide great co-curriculum extension and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Build a sense of community around your school.
Create a living classroom and outdoor resource that your school will enjoy for years to come.
Provide teachers and parents practical gardening skills.
TYPICAL COURSE OVERVIEW
Session One: Lettuce be healthy: Plant botany
Session Two: How does your garden grow? Seedlings
Session Three: Journey to the centre of the seed: Seeds
Session Four: Wonderful water
Session Five: Let's get dirty! Soils
Session Six: Caring for living things: Habitat
Session Seven: My best friend is a worm: Compost and worm farms
Session Eight: Continuing the cycle: What's next?
We supply all the materials for this incursion. For prices and availability, please send us an email.