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The Virtual Compost Bin Game - special price for schools £105 plus VAT
The Virtual Compost Bin Game is an excellent resource that can be used by teachers in a range of settings from the classroom to roadshow events. This colourful and informative education game is already proving invaluable in getting across the message to the general public of what can or cannot go into a compost bin and why. It consists of 77 laminated cards. Each card has on it a different(potential) compost ingredient, and can be stuck to felt boards under various headings. The game comes complete with an instruction booklet that contains the rules of the game and a comprehensive description of each ingredient, as well as further information on several compost related topics.
The Virtual Compost Bin Game is available directly from Garden Organic.
Telephone 024 76308202 or email
Chickens in your garden
Lots of schools already keep chickens as part of their organic garden. Chickens provide interest all year round, they?ll produce fabulous compost and of course the children love collecting the eggs.
Omlet can provide your school with everything you need to start, including the brilliantly easy to use eglu, a foxproof run, food and water containers and egg boxes. They will even come to your school and set it up including two organically reared chickens!'
Find out more on the Omlet UK website
Get Your Hands Dirty
- With The School Farms Network
New resource to help teachers consider the issues involved in growing plants, or caring for animal, in schools
Written by experienced teachers this free resource pack and its downloadable web-based materials gives you ideas, practical advice, educational reasons, and case studies to help you grow plants or keep animals in your school grounds.
An accompanying booklet demonstrates that all schools, regardless of size, location or status, can benefit from using the natural world as a school resource. Whatever activity levels a school can accommodate - from creating a small growing area to running a school farm - these activities can create huge benefits for:
- Young people, who get a chance to learn in new, more relevant and exciting ways
- Teachers, who can broaden and deepen their teaching skills and subject knowledge, while working with more motivated pupils
- The school, which can use these new resources and approaches to raise achievement
- The wider community, as sites become a resource for extended provision and community involvement and knowledge about food production, sustainability issues and the environment is spread.
The booklet makes a strong case for using this resource to re-engage young people with the natural world and its processes, by giving young people a greater understanding of plants and animals (including a better awareness of farming and the origins of food), while importantly improving motivation, behaviour, attitudes and values, and therefore raising achievement as an essential part of a strategy for school improvement. In fact, many schools that have already understood the significance of this argument and are using this approach to teaching and learning, are able to show the positive impact it has on school improvement. They have found that their pupils respond well to such first-hand learning experiences, significantly increasing their sense of achievement, confidence and enthusiasm, as soon as they get their hands dirty!
Go to the Growing Schools Website for more information and to order your folder and download information.
Or send your order direct to schoolfarmsnetwork@farmgarden.org.uk.
Great Gardens for Kids
You can order Great Gardens for Kids at the special price of £7.99 (rrp.£9.99) with free p&p.
To order please call LBS on 01903 828503 quoting ref: HAM 721.A review by Christine Nielsen-Craig of St Mark's C of E Junior School:
Bright and colourful, this is an aesthetically pleasing book with truly child centred ideas. The garden suggestions cater wonderfully to children's love of hiding places, water play, interesting shapes and bright colours. There are a good range of projects (and the equipment they require), from simple to complex.
Among the simpler ideas are a strawberry tower made with colourful plastic bucket; here a good share of the appeal for me is that it gives children the opportunity to taste fresh strawberries and learn for themselves how poorly out of season ones from the supermarket compare.
Somewhere in between is a daffodil maze, a delightful idea which, apart from a good sized patch of ground, requires planning and planting in autumn and, after a six week flowering in spring, mowing. This would make a great school project, where pupils could carry it out in stages through the course of an academic year.
There are plenty of other suggestions that cover the full range of parental ambition, family budget and garden space, including ideas for parties and craft projects.
Grow Organic, Eat Organic
Lone Morton
Illustrated by Martin Ursell
b small publishing
ISBN 1 874735 91 3
"This book is extremely well illustrated. It is very colourful, bright and attractive. The explanations are very clear; the layout of the writing is in short blocks that makes it encouraging to read. The glossary is very useful due to some words I didn’t understand. The book also contains very interesting recipes that would inspire young children. I would recommend this to all children who want to have fun gardening. Overall rating 8/10."
Reviewed by Jordan Mander and George Iles age 11. Brambleside Community Primary School
The first five teachers to contact b small publishing, stating that they saw the 'Grow Organic, Eat Organic' offer on the Garden Organic for Schools website, will receive a free copy of this book.
Contact b small publishing on Tel: 020 89482884 or via their website at www.bsmall.co.uk
Learning about Life Cycles Using an Organic Garden
Ian Mitchell and Allan Randall
Southgate Publishers 2002
ISBN 1-85741-079-3
Alison Gray, a year 3 teacher says,
"This book contains a series of twenty lesson plans aimed at primary school children in years 4, 5 and 6. It contains practical, helpful advice for teachers and is realistic about the limits on time and other resources in schools.
The focus is on learning about life-cycles of plants, common garden pests and natural predators, in the context of an organically managed school garden. It covers the learning objectives of QCA's Science 5b 'Life Cycles' unit, with many links to units 3b, 4b and 6a.
Lots of hands-on activities for children, with the scientific background clearly explained through teachers' notes, and photocopiable pupil worksheets. Some of the worksheets are quite wordy and would need adapting for less confident readers.
Very clear background information for less experienced organic growers and a useful section on where to get more information and resources."
Penny Walters of Stirchley Primary School, Shropshire says
"I've had great fun using some of the units with KS2 and was extremely impressed with the structure and quality of the worksheets. The lessons were easy to follow and appropriately pitched for the age range of the children. The resources suggested were readily accessible and not too complicated. We were able to leave children to work independently on sheets or use them with small groups."
This book is available from Southgate Publishers, The Square, Sandford Crediton
Devon EX17 4LW Phone 01363 776 888. They sell individual copies at £9.95Southgate Publishers Website - http://www.southgatepublishers.co.uk
Cover illustration from Jody's Beans
written by Malachy Doyle and
illustrated by Judith Allibone.
Cover illustration © 1999 Judith Allibone.
Reproduced by permission of
Walkers Books Ltd,
London SE11 5HJJody's Beans
by Malachy Doyle
Illustrated by Judith Allibone. ISBN 1406300268 Price £4.99 Walker BooksSpecial Offer for members of the Garden Organic for Schools project
40% discount
Only £2.99. Send orders to customer.services@walker.co.uk stating that you are a member of the Garden Organic for Schools project.
Use this beautifully written and perfectly illustrated storybook to introduce children to the wonders of growing vegetables. Jody's Granda comes to stay and brings her some runner bean seeds. They tend to and nurture the plants through the whole summer. Granda gives tips long distance by telephone. The harvesting of the runner beans heralds an exciting time for Jody; she becomes a big sister.
This book takes children through the life cycle of the bean plant and how to look after them in an uncomplicated but intriguing way.
Green Essentials Impact Books
A complete set of all 12 exciting new guides to organic gardening from Impact Publishing. The Green Essentials organic guides are practical and fun. Each one is focused on just one topic – making it the ideal way for busy gardeners or beginners to get all the top organic tips they need. All books carry the logos of the HDRA and the Soil Association.
The 12 titles are:
- Attract wildlife
- Garden birds
- Control pests
- Create ponds
- Grow vegetables
- Create compost
- Successful allotments
- Grow fruit
- Perfect lawns
- Perfect roses
- Healthy plants
- Banish slugs
Growing naturally - A Teacher's Guide to Organic Gardening
Maggi Brown - former Head of Education for HDRA
Growing Naturally has been written so that teachers, with or without gardening expertise, can make full use of school gardens, applying the work to their day-to-day curriculum requirements.
Ideas for investigation, activities and experiments flow from the organic gardening information. Growing Naturally can be used by schools involved in a whole site redevelopment, or by an individual teacher to work on flower beds next to the classroom window. Gardening is a fun and easily accessible way for children to start to learn about the environment. Growing Naturally links the enjoyment of the children to the needs of the classroom.
The chapters deal with:
- What is organic gardening?
- Getting started in your schools
- Ground clearing Preparing and caring for the soil
- Recycling
- Worm composting
- Liquid plant food
- Pest control
- The wildlife and flower garden
- The vegetable garden
- Water in the organic garden
- Windowsill planting
There are also plant lists, a glossary and section on useful further reading.
Growing Naturally is published by:Southgate Publishers Ltd,
The Square,
Sandford,
Crediton,
Devon
EX17 4LW
Tel 01363 776888
Fax 01363 776889
Email:
Website: www.southgatepublishers.co.ukAvailable direct from the publishers,
price £7.95 (plus p&p)
Link-a-Bord raised bed pack - planted upLink-a-Bord raised bed pack
(Dimensions - 108cmx219cmx15cm+30cm)
Link-a-Bord is a unique modular system. The double skinned board is easily fitted together with plastic links that allow a wide variety of constructions to be made. E.g. Compost bins, raised vegetable or flowerbeds, window boxes, plant containers, whelping boxes, pet runs etc.The board is made almost entirely from recycled upvc and its double skinned construction helps to maintain a stable growing temperature. It is simple joined together by straight or corner links, the whole system being locked into place with dowels and caps.
More information about Link-a-Bord products available on the Link-a-Bord website
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