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It is of great help to those starting out to read about how others have carried out a school gardening project.
Thanks to the schools who have been happy to share their gardens - why not join them and share your experiences and showcase your efforts.
If you would like to help by including information about your project. How you have progressed, the successes and failures, plans for improvement etc. then please contact me. Think of the sort of information that would have helped or inspired you when you were setting out.
An adult could provide the information supported by a few digital photographs or the children/students could use the activity as part of a literacy project.
Many genres would be suitable for inclusion, information text, recount, report or journalistic (maybe in the style of a newspaper or magazine article), persuasive (e.g. why should a school start a gardening project?), discussion (e.g. the pro and cons on organic gardening), instructional (how to ...).
A group of children could be set the task or it could be set to a whole class and the most effective piece chosen for submission.
Articles can be sent in MS Word format (if this is not available you could try using Notepad or Textease) accompanied by digital photographs in JPG format (at a reasonable size e.g. 800px x 600px). Alternatively photographs may be uploaded into a utility such as Flickr and the URL provided. If lots of photos are included these will need to be reduced in size so that the page doesn't become too big.
As an alternative to submitting an article for direct publication you may wish to submit a link to your own website where information is available. All such links will be published.
It is the school's responsibility for ensuring that parental permission is obtained to publish, on this website, any photographs featuring children. When submitting articles please confirm that this is the case and please do not refer to any children by their full name in your articles.
Thanks to the schools who have been happy to share their gardens -
If you would like to help by including information about your project. How you have progressed, the successes and failures, plans for improvement etc. then please contact me. Think of the sort of information that would have helped or inspired you when you were setting out.
An adult could provide the information supported by a few digital photographs or the children/students could use the activity as part of a literacy project.
Many genres would be suitable for inclusion, information text, recount, report or journalistic (maybe in the style of a newspaper or magazine article), persuasive (e.g. why should a school start a gardening project?), discussion (e.g. the pro and cons on organic gardening), instructional (how to ...).
A group of children could be set the task or it could be set to a whole class and the most effective piece chosen for submission.
Articles can be sent in MS Word format (if this is not available you could try using Notepad or Textease) accompanied by digital photographs in JPG format (at a reasonable size e.g. 800px x 600px). Alternatively photographs may be uploaded into a utility such as Flickr and the URL provided. If lots of photos are included these will need to be reduced in size so that the page doesn't become too big.
As an alternative to submitting an article for direct publication you may wish to submit a link to your own website where information is available. All such links will be published.
It is the school's responsibility for ensuring that parental permission is obtained to publish, on this website, any photographs featuring children. When submitting articles please confirm that this is the case and please do not refer to any children by their full name in your articles.
Parkside Community School
in Chesterfield has around 500 students aged 11-
Spire Infant School
in Chesterfield
Children from Spire Infants move up into Spire Junior School and then up to Parkside Community School.