GETTING STARTED

Start-up training

Includes half a day initial planning visit to school and 3 days in school training

Gain the confidence and skills to set up, plan and manage a school kitchen garden and to run practical gardening sessions with your children.

A half day advisory visit from our expert RHS growit trainer to discuss:

• garden location, size, construction and layout
• tools and equipment
• organization of groups of children in the garden
• health and safety

And

3 days of expert training delivered in your school by the RHS growit trainer, providing the opportunity for:

• one to one planning time with your school's growit coordinator
• modeling of best practice in the garden with groups of children
• practical training in key horticultural skills for teachers and support staff

Training and teaching resources will be provided with the additional benefit of online support after the training is finished.

*We recommend spreading the training across three terms, allowing each session to be linked to a different season.

*We suggest that the training 'day' runs for an afternoon and after school, allowing more staff to be involved with minimum disruption to your day.

Total £1,700

SUPPORT DAYS AND TWILIGHTS

Supported in school practice

A one day visit from our RHS growit trainer enabling you to further develop or refresh your growing skills and/or to embed growing in the curriculum

The content of each day is tailored to meet individual needs and may cover:

• Training of new staff in key horticultural skills
• Development of existing horticultural skills
• Further development of outdoor space
• One to one planning time with the growit coordinator
• Modeling best practice in the garden with groups of children
• Incorporating growing into cross-curricular themes and projects

Total £500

Twilight (approximately 1.5 hours)

Learn key gardening skills for the term ahead

Designed for schools or individuals who wish to develop or refresh their growing skills and to gain ideas for inspiring seasonal learning activities.

• Boost the growing skills and confidence of your whole staff or a group of staff and get everyone inspired to teach outside

Or

• Top up the skills of your growit co-ordinator to enable them to effectively plan and manage the garden in the months ahead

Your growit Trainer will discuss topics with you. These may include:

• Top fruits and vegetables to grow this term and how to grow them
• Seasonal gardening skills: Preparing the soil, composting, over-wintering crops, crop rotation, harvesting, seed saving and storage of crops.
• How to get your garden through the holiday periods
• Practical ways to control weeds, making a weed herbarium
• Seasonal enterprise projects and fundraising
• Arts and crafts activities, including bottle top greenhouses, insect houses

*Twilights can be organized as a single school staff CPD event, or as a group training session for the teaching and support staff of several networked schools.

Total £300 per school for a whole school staff CPD event

Or

Total £50 per person to attend a networked school group training event.

* If you host a group training event and are prepared to provide refreshments you will get two places free.

ADVANCED

Days of advanced growit training

Designed for schools who wish to further develop and embed growit.

This includes:

• One day in school training

The content of the day is agreed between the school and growit trainer as school requirements will differ.

Notes:

Course materials as required will be chargeable. A price list for resources is available at the time of booking and should be agreed in advance.

Total £500