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(Teachers taking herb cuttings at SEN Training Day in 2010) Do you work with pupils with Special Educational Needs and would like some practical ideas to link learning with gardening? Then why not book yourself a place on one of our Gardening with SEN Pupils training days at RHS Wisley and RHS Harlow...
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Growing Together: Gardening with Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs has just been published on the RHS Campaign for School Gardening website. This report details the findings of the RHS SEN Schools Pilot Project 2009-10, which involved six SEN schools in Sussex, working with 95...
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Some of the grounds at Down's Park School in Portslade by Sea consist of a sloping site with thin soil over chalk. The school thought it would be a nice addition to the grounds to create a wildflower meadow and this is the project we have been working on in the past half term. The pupils spent alot...
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Guttering is very useful in the garden for tasks such as early sowings of peas or collecting the rainwater into the waterbutt. At Manor Green Primary School in Crawley, we developed a further use for guttering in the Autumn Term - bulb planting! The pupils in one of the classes that I work with at Manor...
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(Photo of Cox's Orange Pippin from RHS Website - copyright RHS/ Tim Sandall) My colleagues in the Fruit and Trials Department at RHS Wisley generously gave some apples for my schools to taste this autumn. They provided five different cultivars: Captain Kidd, Cortland, Cox's Orange Pippin, Forpear...
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I am very excited to be working at Newick House School, Burgess Hill as they have one of my 'wishlist' garden items.... namely a polytunnel. The polytunnel was installed over the summer, so this will be its first year of production and the school want me to help them make the most of this facility...
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Back in September, I helped the pupils of Hamilton Lodge School for Deaf Children harvest the main crop potatoes that they had planted back in the Spring. They had planted two tubers of a variety called 'Sarpo Axona', which is described as having good resistance to blight. Despite the weather...
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As we all know, its no good growing crops in your garden that you don't like and won't use, and obviously the same applies with school gardens. What do you do if you have lots of (pupil) gardeners looking after a patch? How do you include everyone's choices, even in a small space? Have a...
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Hello, I'm Hayley Young, RHS SEN Schools Project Officer based in the South of England. I have just started this exciting one year project for the RHS, which will combine practical work alongside pupils in Special Schools in Sussex and providing their teachers with training in horticultural skills...
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