Nature in Education
I work with primary and secondary schools, youth groups and colleges in a variety of ways to empowers children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature's future in wildlife and horticulture.
The work I do aims to build connections to nature through discovery and learning, Improve physical and mental wellbeing through spending time outdoors growing fruit and vegetables and learning and being in nature.
Nottingham College garden creation, gabion workshops and planting
As part of a GrowNotts project with students from the college designed and ran a series of workshops creating a new natural outdoor space for students at the EMTEC site, Ruddington. Students inputted to the design and planting ideas and we built and planted up the space creating an inviting outdoor space for nature, staff and pupils.
I have been involved in the transformation of the college's City Hub main planting beds at the front and side of the college. I created gabion habitats, wildflower planting and open compost heaps and habitats.
Sensory walkways and growing areas at Southwold Primary School Radford
Working with students we restored an overgrown allotment, ran growing sessions for staff, parents and planted fruit and perennial vegetables.
With another group of pupils, we created a sensory wildlife path of different up-cycled materials, bee posts, hedgehog habitats and planted up with wildflowers and sensory friendly flowers to touch, small and taste.
I designed and created an assessable safe space for SEND students to grow and enjoy a greener, more natural space in a previously unloved, hard landscaped area of the playground. I then ran a growing session for students and a teaching session for staff to ensure the space is well maintained
I created wildflower meadows, wildflower banks and a native hedge on the playing field to create privacy and a new space for OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) for pupils.
Creating growing areas and wildflower meadows and planting for nature at Djanogly Northgate school
