AUTUMN SPRING 2019 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING COURSES INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GROW

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1 AUTUMN SPRING 2019 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING COURSES INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GROW 1

2 GROW WITH US Turn the outdoors into a living, breathing learning resource packed with adventure and wonder. Our extensive programme of training courses is suitable for anyone involved in teaching and inspiring young people. We will provide you with the skills and confidence to create outdoor learning experiences that impact children s achievement, health and wellbeing, whilst supporting the national curriculum. CONTENTS 3 4 MATHS AND ENGLISH 5 EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN 6 EARLY YEARS GARDEN EXPLORER 7 GARDENING FOR CHILDREN WITH SEND 8 WILLOW ART 9 TAILOR-MADE / SCITT TRAINING 16 SECONDARY SCIENCE TEACH MEETS 17 SCHOOL VISITS / WORKSHOPS 18 HOW TO BOOK / PRICING 19 All courses are suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, group leaders and volunteers, no matter what previous horticultural experience you have. The full year of scheduled courses can be found online at schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk. Our spring-summer course brochure will be available in February KEY EY EARLY YEARS P PRIMARY S SECONDARY SND SEND COURSES BY REGION SCOTLAND 10 YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER 10 NORTH EAST 11 NORTH WEST 11 EAST MIDLANDS 12 WEST MIDLANDS 12 EAST OF ENGLAND 13 SOUTH WEST 13 LONDON 14 SOUTH EAST 14 WALES 15 NORTHERN IRELAND 15 This hands-on course is designed to give you and your young people the skills you need to set up a simple productive garden and manage the growing space throughout the seasons. The course will cover all the basics so that you can get children actively involved in growing their own food. EY P S SND Understand how plants grow from a seed to a crop. Identify the parts of the plant that you eat. Learn how to prepare the soil to get the best yields. Learn how to sow and grow a delicious range of vegetables throughout the year. Make the most of your produce once it has been harvested. 2 3

3 A YEAR IN YOUR Get clued in on how to keep your gardening club flourishing in all weathers and seasons throughout the year. Learn basic horticultural skills and find out about safety aspects and practical considerations needed to set up and run a successful gardening club. Set up and run a sustainable gardening club. Plan a full programme of fun, creative indoor and outdoor activities, week in, week out throughout the year. Learn basic skills of soil preparation, sowing, plant establishment and maintenance to support your club activities. MATHS & ENGLISH EY P SND P SND Utilise the power of your school grounds as a resource for creative maths and English experiences that will inspire your young people. Let nature lead their progression through core subjects. Ask your group to write a house description for a woodlouse, or make a human scatter graph to solve a maths dilemma. Task them with creating a storyboard using only natural materials from the garden. Plan your own innovative lessons based around what you can find in your school grounds. Discover how outdoor learning can be cross curricular. Explore creative maths and English experiences that will have a positive impact on learning. Broaden the possibilities for delivering the national curriculum outdoors. 4 5

4 EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN The RHS has teamed up with the Wellcome Trust to develop this one-day course based on the innovative Explorify approach to learning science, set in the context of school gardens. Explorify in the Garden is a practical course that will give you the confidence to take the primary science curriculum outdoors and make full use of the rich tapestry of opportunities that nature, plants and growing provide. Experience how to work with the fascinating digital images and videos from the Wellcome collections from an RHS real world perspective. EARLY YEARS GARDEN EXPLORER P SND EY Immerse young children in the natural world with the help of this hands-on course, packed full of fun, engaging growing activities and lesson ideas. Plan diverse teaching spaces in your outdoor area to make the most of your garden. Use growing to improve language and communication skills. Develop quick and easy-to-implement activities which link to the garden and work in and out of the classroom. Create a diary of seasonal gardening activities focusing on plants that are easy to grow. Improve your horticultural understanding and confidence in explaining basic gardening processes to young children. Work with Explorify resources developed by the Wellcome Trust. Improve your growing techniques and horticultural understanding. Realise how growing topics can spark curiosity and inspire children to question the world around them. Discover new plants that can help you teach primary science in an exciting way, whilst having a positive impact on learning. 6 7

5 GARDENING FOR CHILDREN WITH SEND If you work with children and young people with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and can see the potential of gardening to raise their confidence, self-esteem and achievement, then this course is for you. We will give you the practical horticultural skills you need to work safely and confidently with young people, so that they can be fully involved in gardening activities with an appropriate level of challenge. SND Select the right seeds, plants and tools for your young people and their needs. Teach your young people a range of horticultural skills whilst continuing to assess their progress. Link gardening to childrens personal development plans and see how it supports positive changes to behaviour. Use plants in your garden for creative activities and enterprise ideas. WILLOW ART Develop the basic skills and techniques you need to create three-dimensional, botanical themed sculptures with willow. Use your newly acquired expertise to create art installations, suitable for the classroom or garden. Understand how to grow and store willow, where to source it and how best to prepare this natural material for use throughout the year. Get ideas about how to use willow with children of different ages. Get to grips with a variety of construction methods - you ll be able to take your sculptures away with you! P 8 9

6 COURSES BY REGION NORTH EAST Thursday 18 October 2018 Durham University Botanic Garden EARLY YEARS GARDEN EXPLORER Wednesday 27 March 2019 The Willows Montessori Nursery South Road, Durham DH1 3TN Barmoor Lane, Ryton Village, Tyne and Wear NE40 3QP NORTH WEST Wednesday 7 November 2018 Blessed John Henry Newman RC College Broadway, Oldham OL9 9QY SCOTLAND Thursday 7 March 2019 St Mary s Catholic Primary School EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN Belgrave Avenue, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1HT Thursday 14 March 2019 Ordsall Hall 322 Ordsall Lane, Ordsall, Salford M5 3AN Wednesday 3 October 2018 Gavinburn Primary School Dumbarton Road, Old Kilpatrick G60 5NE Wednesday 10 October 2018 Deans Community High School Eastwood Park, Livingston EH54 8PS Wednesday 13 February 2019 Jordanhill School 45 Chamberlain Road, Glasgow G13 1SP EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN Thursday 7 March 2019 St Peter s Primary School 10 Falcon Road, Edinburgh EH10 4AH YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER Wednesday 17 October 2018 RHS Garden Harlow Carr Crag Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 1QB Wednesday 20 February 2019 RHS Garden Harlow Carr Crag Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 1QB 10 11

7 EAST MIDLANDS Wednesday 14 November 2018 Chatsworth House Bakewell DE45 1PP WEST MIDLANDS Wednesday 20 March 2019 Tuxford Academy Marnham Road, Tuxford, Newark, Notts NG22 0JH Tuesday 2 October 2018 Winterbourne House and Garden EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN Tuesday 5 March 2019 Thursday 21 March 2019 Winterbourne House and Garden St Benedict s Primary School Friday 29 March 2019 President Kennedy School University of Birmingham, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT University of Birmingham, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT St Benedict s Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands. B10 9DP Rookery Lane, Holbrooks, Coventry CV6 4GL EAST OF ENGLAND SOUTH WEST Wednesday 17 October 2018 RHS Garden Hyde Hall Creephedge Lane, Rettendon, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 8ET Thursday 1 November 2018 Cambridge University Botanic Garden 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE Wednesday 6 March 2019 RHS Garden Hyde Hall Creephedge Lane, Rettendon, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 8ET Thursday 18 October 2018 RHS Garden Rosemoor Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH Wednesday 27 February 2019 RHS Garden Rosemoor Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH Wednesday 13 March 2019 University of Bristol Botanic Gardens The Holmes, Stoke Park Road, Bristol, BS9 1JG 12 13

8 LONDON SOUTH EAST Thursday 11 October 2018 Rhyl Primary School 7-31 Rhyl Street, London NW5 3HB Wednesday 7 November 2018 Dunraven School Leigham Court Road, London SW16 2QB Wednesday 13 March 2019 John Ruskin School John Ruskin Street, Camberwell, London SE5 0PQ EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN Thursday 28 March 2019 Poplar Primary School Poplar Road South, Merton Park, London SW19 3JZ WALES Tuesday 13 November 2018 Ysgol Esgob Morgan Ffordd Siarl, Ashley Court St Asaph, Denbighshire LL17 0PT Wednesday 20 March 2019 Hendredenny Park Primary School NORTHERN IRELAND White Cross Lane, Caerphilly CF83 2BL Friday 19 October 2018 Friends School Lisburn 6 Magheralave Road, Lisburn BT28 3BH Friday 22 March 2019 Maghaberry Community Centre Maghaberry Rd, Maghaberry, Lisburn BT67 0JG EXPLORIFY IN THE GARDEN Wednesday 10 October 2018 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey, Wednesday 17 October 2018 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey Wednesday 7 November 2018 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey GARDENING FOR CHILDREN WITH SEND Thursday 15 November 2018 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey Wednesday 6 March 2019 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey WILLOW ART Thursday 14 March 2019 RHS Garden Wisley Woking, Surrey EARLY YEARS GARDEN EXPLORER Friday 22 March 2019 Sythwood Bungalow Sythwood School, Sythwood Horsell. Woking GU21 3AX 14 15

9 TAILOR-MADE TRAINING We can offer tailor-made training to schools and groups. Our team can work with you to build a course from a range of inspiring modules including practical horticultural skills, food growing, wildlife gardening and teaching curriculum subjects using the garden. SCHOOL CENTRED INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING (SCITT) Our aim is to support newly qualified teachers as they embark on their school careers, providing them with the skills to deliver outdoor learning opportunities with their pupils. SECONDARY SCIENCE TEACH MEETS Throughout the year we offer a selection of free after school twilight sessions. During each session we showcase a series of plant-based science experiments that have been designed to inspire the imagination of students whilst meeting the current curriculum. These are informal sessions that also provide welcome opportunities for you to meet and swap ideas with other professionals in your area. Sessions run from 4-6pm so as not to impact on the school day. Search on our website for a session near you and have fun trying the experiments for yourself before taking these achievable, practical projects back to school. We have worked closely with SCITT and University providers to develop a training programme that specifically supports new teachers. The programme can be designed for full day, half day or twilight sessions. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE TEAM ON CPD@RHS.ORG.UK 16 17

10 SCHOOL VISITS The RHS offers an exciting programme of workshops for schools at each of its four gardens. For more information go to the Education and Learning section of the RHS website at rhs.org.uk/education-learning/gardening-children-schools COURSES AND WORKSHOPS The four RHS gardens offer a wide range of workshops and courses to develop your knowledge of plants and gardens, from pruning and propagation to art and photography. HOW TO BOOK Booking forms can be found on our website at schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/cpd or you can cpd@rhs.org.uk PRICING One course 95 Two courses or two people on one course 170 Explorify in the Garden 40 For more information, go to the course section of the RHS website at rhs.org.uk/education-learning/courses-workshops PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS RHS / Julie Howden (front cover), Georgi Mabee (p3), Luke MacGregor (p4, p15), Chris Taylor (p5), Helen Yates (p6, p12), SiRAstudio (p7, p18), Alana Cama (p8, p16), Tim Sandall (p9), Julian Weigall (p11, p17, p19, back cover), Mark Winwood (p13), Guy Harrop (p14) 18 19

11 THE RHS CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL GARDENING INSPIRES AND SUPPORTS SCHOOL AND YOUTH GROUPS TO PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH GARDENING OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE THEIR SKILLS AND BOOST THEIR DEVELOPMENT. Our work has shown that the direct benefits of gardening for children are wide ranging. It can: Improve physical and mental wellbeing Build life skills such as confidence, teamwork and communication Enhance literacy, numeracy and oracy skills Enrich the entire curriculum from science, maths and geography, to art, design and languages Encourage a better and healthier lifestyle Teach about the environment and sustainability Help young people engage with their surroundings better and develop a sense of responsibility schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk 20 RHS registered charity no: /SCO38262