Horticulture
Our Mission is to offer a positive, life enhancing education, providing opportunities for the development of each individual’s potential.
We achieve this through the effective multidisciplinary team, working in partnership with parents and carers.
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The aims of horticulture at our school are so that all children:
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- Have opportunities to experience in a sensory way the variety that exists within a garden at all times of the year, as with season, weather, plants, soils, fragrance, touch, colour, sound, and taste.
- To learn through practical lessons how to grow plants, fruit and vegetables and challenge the dislocation of the urban environment with understanding of how crops grow.
- Learn the benefits of gardening through physical work and routines which are defined by season, not by curriculum.
- To develop horticultural vocabulary as with plant part and tool identification.
- To understand basic horticultural science (how and why plants live and die or survive and thrive) and terms, (germination, photosynthesis, WALNUTS(water, air, light..
- To work in a safe and secure environment where eco-friendly and web friendly practice leads to independent working underpinned by knowledge evidence of why they are performing a task.
Learn to use, maintain and store personal protective equipment correctly.
- Learn to use maintain and store a wide variety of tools across whole school.
- Can taste the fruits of their labours by growing, maintaining and then harvesting fruit and vegetables grown organically for use in food technology..