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THE
GROWING GRAPEVINE SCHOOL GARDENS NETWORK |
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Communities can provide services to your schools in the following
areas:
Design,
consultancies, implementation and ongoing management support
including waste/resource audits, water management plans
Training
and curriculum integration
Network
development and support eg annual seminars, network meetings.
International
links to schools with gardens
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All
members of the school community are invited to join this ever-growing
network of people interested in school gardens and all the benefits
that come with them.
The Growing
Grapevine network is about sharing your school garden, sharing
your ideas, successes, difficulties, experiences; discussion
of future possibilities for the network, funding opportunities
and resource sharing that can help to grow your school garden.
Every
term there is a network meeting at a school to look at their
progress and catch up with one another.
ALL are invited – teachers, teacher aides, admin staff,
parents, tuck shop staff, P&C members, students, interested
community members.
To
join the Growing Grapevine network please email us expressing
your interest and contact details
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have gardens in schools? |
Children
have the opportunity to work cooperatively on real tasks.
The gardens, particularly if combined with cooking programs,
offer opportunities to honour the cultures comprising the school
community.
The garden setting helps broaden the way teachers look at both
curriculum and their students.
Garden experiences reinforce classroom curriculum and offer
opportunities to integrate curriculum across subject areas.
Students learn about where food really comes from and understand
the role of food in life
Gardens provide a context for understanding seasonality and
life cycles.
Gardens can improve nutrition and highlight healthy foods.
In the kitchen and garden students build vocabulary...both small
and large.
In the garden, students can observe all of the Principles of
Ecology in practice.
They create common experience to build on in multiple settings
from classroom to celebration.
Gardens provide opportunities for informal one-on-one time for
teachers and students to talk.
They offer opportunities to teach life skills such as gardening
and cooking.
The garden and kitchen are beautiful spaces that connect students
to their school.
A kitchen and garden promote risk taking, such as trying new
things...foods, activities and making new friends.
Students value the garden: their sense of pride and ownership
discourages vandalism.
Gardens provide opportunities for community involvement –
a link with neighbours, volunteers, parents, and community businesses.
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