WISH LIST – Workshops
£500 FROM Up The Garden Bath
Up The Garden Bath is an award-winning community project committed to fighting food poverty, education and environmental improvement. Working with local businesses, they take unwanted waste materials such as old bathtubs and upcycle them into garden planters. Installation of upcycled bathtub planters include fun workshops that teach children about recycling, gardening and sustainability.
upthegardenbath.co.uk
£300 FROM The Bug Man
Author Martin Rapley AKA The Bug Man presents exciting science shows and workshops to schools. Go on a wildlife survey or bug hunt around your school grounds or your local area. Martin is fully DBS checked and can supply everything for a successful minibeast hunt or pond-dipping session. The Bug Man has a wet weather plan that includes bringing native live minibeasts to your school.
thebugman.co.uk
£240 FROM The Bee Centre
The Bee Centre is the home of sustainable and ethical beekeeping in the UK. Based in Lancashire, they provide ‘Bees on Tour’; half-day visits, to bring bees and biodiversity to life. Sessions are delivered by fully DBS- checked educators, and between March and October they can even bring a specially constructed observation hive, stocked with Lancashire honeybees.
thebeecentre.org/schools
The great outdoors
There’s no better way for children to learn about the wonders of the natural world than with some hands-on, close-up experience
£700 FROM Grow To School
Growbag is a food-growing programme from Yorkshire company Grow to School. It teaches children and staff to sow, grow and care for their growing space, the result of which leaves schools with an outdoor resource for learning, and a garden full of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the end of the year. Workshops, delivered across six or 12 one-day gardening sessions and supported by staff training, will engage the whole school community.
growtoschool.co.uk
56 SPRING 2022
pta.co.uk £175 FROM Newground Together
Newground Together, an environmental charity that supports community projects in the North of England, offers educational programmes for primary schools. These include half-day workshops – ‘Natural and Outdoor Art’ for KS1/2, creating masterpieces using natural materials in the outdoors; and ‘Maps’ for KS2, in which children will create maps of your school grounds from natural materials.
newground.co.uk/environmental- education/half-day-workshops/
Den Building
Chris Harman works with sustainable materials to make structures and sculptures and offers ‘Outdoor Workshops’ to school pupils of all ages. Den-building workshops can also incorporate activities such as making and flying kites, fire-lighting and building tree houses. These engaging workshops aim to inspire and preserve the art of den building providing opportunities to learn teamworking and supporting creativity.
denbuilding.co.uk
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