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Gardening in Schools: All Year Round offers a complete programme for gardening in schools. It includes activities for every month, with detailed, visual instructions about designing and constructing your school garden and carrying out tasks with children. Practical considerations such as maintenance, health and safety, fundraising and classroom organisation are also included. The book has a section on setting up a gardening club, with suggested activities covering the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms. Gardening in Schools includes a CD which provides a wealth of additional resources such as sample policies and risk assessment, term time cropping plan, ideas for fundraising, working with willow and plans for simple, themed gardens.

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Author:   Clare Revera ,  Alison Shakspeare
Publisher:   Southgate Publishers
Imprint:   Southgate Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.140kg
ISBN:  

9781857411720

ISBN 10:   1857411722
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   19 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

6 September: * Risk assess the school garden * Write a school policy * Test your soil * Harvesting fruit, vegetables and lavendar * Pruning - use of tools * Hyacinths for Christmas 8 October * Making leaf mould * Taking cuttings * Planting broad beans * Planting a layered pot * Planting raspberry canes * Plan a horticultural show 10 November * Collecting seeds * Design and make a seed packet * Make recycled paper seed strips * Pot up strawberry runners * Splitting perennials * Planting onions and garlic * Planting bulbs in the ground 12 December * Make a willow Star * Decorate an evergreen tree * Plant a winter arrangement * Rhubarb and herb planting 13 January * Planning your garden and crop rotation * Build a pop bottle greenhouse * Plant a living willow structure * Making birdfeeders and bird boxes * Plant a basketry willow growing bed * RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 14 February * Enrich the soil: make compost * Tree and hedge planting * How to sow seeds indoors * Garden design - planning and planting a themed garden * Make a wormery 16 March * Planting 'Bag for Life' potatoes * Plug plants and potting on * Design and make raised beds * Plant an asparagus bed * Design and dig a pond * Herbacious perennials 18 April * Sowing seeds outdoors * Hardening off and planting out * Design and make plant labels * Dead head all spring bulbs * Raise chickens from eggs * Plant a wildflower meadow * Design and make a bug house 20 May * Plant an instant allotment * Thinning out * Sowing seeds outdoors * Plant a summer container * Harvesting rhubarb * Tackle slugs and snails * Feeding plants 22 June * Decorating the school garden - dried willow butterflies and flowers, mosaics and murals * Raise and release butterflies * Make a herby salad * Make nettle soup * Thinning fruit 24 July * Make a garlic or onion plait * Photosynthesis - make a grass mural * Undertake a wildlife survey * Bumble bees * Make a Minestrone 25 Summer : Holidays . How to keep your school garden going over the summer holidays 26 - 29 Setting up a School Gardening Club . School Gardening Club annual programme - term by term 30 Practical considerations 31 Resources

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Clare Revera is a primary teacher with fifteen years experience in school grounds development in Wales. She has been the winner of the pretigious RHS Greenfingers Challenge, the Wales in Bloom title and the National Farmers Union Rural School Teacher of the Year. She runs Out to Learn, which provides training, consultancy work and pupil workshops, relating to school grounds, in all kinds of schools.

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