About our project

From January 2008 the Good Gardeners Association has been given funding by the Ernest Cooke Trust to extend a recent pilot scheme.

We aim to introduce children to the idea that our treatment of soil alters the nutritional quality of the food we grow in it, which in turn affects our health and that of the planet.

This links in with many aspects of the National Curriculum and many current national iniatives.

The project is very flexible and has been run with KS 1 - 3 and in Steiner Waldorf schools. We provide a hands-on learning experience where the children have responsibility for their learning. For more info see "Calling All Schools" post.

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Horton get all scientific

We spent a bit of time thinking about what science actually is...what makes science science! From that we talked about measuring the results of our experiments, and decided to create some record sheets. We also made some more labels for the Different plots.

When we checked in the garden, nothing had grown on the plots except weeds!!! Hopefully the warm weather will have an effect...

The group were given lots of options for an art session next time, and opted to learn how to create felt. We're going to try and make some felt pictures representing soil creatures.
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