Your school gardening project:
It is of great help to those starting out to read about how others have carried out a school gardening project.
This page will hopefully include links to such informationso why not 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 what sort of information would have helped or imspired you when you were setting out.
An adult could provide the information supported by a few digital photographs or the children 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 the task could be set to a whole class and the most effective piece chosen for submission. If response from schools is high then there would need to be some competition as to what is published and maybe publishing only for a limited period.
If you are interested in submitting an article - contact me. 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. up to 200 Kb). Alternatively photographs may be uploaded into a utility such as Flickr and the URL provided.
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.