This is a partnership project with: Learning through Landscapes, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Field Studies Council, OPAL,

University of Stirling, TCV and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust

A SIMPLE TIMELINE FOR GETTING YOUR SCHOOL GARDENS STARTED

What wildlife is in your school?

Complete the survey!

What is the aim of your project?

• To create food & habitat for pollinators in our school

• To create an edible enterprise space• …. [YOUR DREAMS HERE PLEASE]

Where are you now?

Where do you want to be?

This is a partnership project with: Learning through Landscapes, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Field Studies Council, OPAL,

University of Stirling, TCV and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust

A SIMPLE TIMELINE FOR GETTING YOUR SCHOOL GARDENS STARTED

BudgetHow much can you spend? Use the budget sheets with your pupils

DreamDesignsCreative writing sheets/drawings/ICT research

PlanScale drawings

Use the Sowing and Flowering Calendar.

Map your AreasIn your school grounds – Use the survey sheets to help record what is there already

Choose your plants –Plants for

pollinators cards & veg growing tells you when to plant & harvest.

Plant seeds on a window ledge

or in the ground – record their growth

Have you achieved your project aims?

What have you learnt?What went well?What have you got now?

Buy tools and compostHow can we get there?

Making the ChangesBegin your growing journey

Where are you now?

CelebrateSee how many more pollinators there are!

Activities Worksheet links Curriculum links

Getting your garden project started

with your pupils…In and out of the

classroom!

Print and go with our classroom ready worksheets.

Link key garden planning activities in to core curriculum outcomes.

- Research dream gardens (template & worksheet)

- Undertake creative writing (worksheets and support material)

- Complete scale drawings & measurements of spaces with purpose – your new garden! (worksheet, keys & exemplar)

- Have pupils complete their own budget for plants to go in the garden.

- Consider food that can be grown, when it needs planting, when it needs harvesting – all on simple school specific sheets.

- Explore habitats. Use the OPAL Polli:Nation survey to help you identify plants & insects.

ICT research dream garden worksheethttp://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/ict-worksheet-research-for-your-garden/

Creative writing – School grounds worksheet- Dream garden worksheethttp://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/creative-writing-worksheets-dream-schools-dream-gardens/

Scale drawingshttp://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/school-garden-design-scale-drawing-worksheet/

Budget worksheet (choosing plants)http://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/numeracy-worksheet-garden-budget/

Letter writing ‘Donations from local businesses’ worksheet

Researching vegetables you can grow here (just print)https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/growyourown

https://www.opalexplorenature.org/polli-nation- Ready to print

ICT

Numeracy:

MultiplicationVolumesBudgetingMeasurementsEstimates PlanningTimingSeasons

Literacy:

Creative writingpersuasive writingSentence structureVocabulary

This is a partnership project with: Learning through Landscapes, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Field Studies Council, OPAL,

University of Stirling, TCV and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Activities Worksheet/Resource links Curriculum links

Rainy day activities

- Pupils can lead on choices of flowering plants & vegetables (worksheet, guidelines)

- Populate planting/flowering harvesting calendars with pupils

- Get identifying the creatures you have found previously. Submit photos to

- https://www.ispotnature.org/

- creative & persuasive writing pieces

Flowering plants flash card activity.http://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/plants-for-pollinators/

Use the flash cards to populate the planting/flowering calendar.http://www.polli-nation.co.uk/activity/creating-your-own-planting-calendar/

Use the websites below to see which species are at risk and which ones you can help. Write a letter to your local councillor for help.

ICT

Numeracy:

Scale

Measurements

Personal skills:

Public speaking

Persuasive writing

Scientific investigation:

Graph drawing

Interpretation

Averages

Data manipulation

Get out and do something

- Begin recording Wildlife – Bioblitz- Create an ongoing record of wildlife in your school

– perfect for BIG science investigations- Butterflies, insects, plants (free guides here)

- Plant some salad seeds (spinach/lettuce etc)- Plant bulbs, hedgerow (Sept – Feb)- Plant veg & flowers (see veg & plant guides)

- Complete the Polli:Nation survey. Be led through a clear scientific process throughout. Consider plant life and invertebrate life.

Free Bumblebee guide herehttps://bumblebeeconservation.org/images/uploads/Resources_Kids/BBCT_Bumblebee_ID_sheet_(big_8).pdf

Free Butterfly guide here http://www.bigbutterflycount.org/

Free Insect guide here https://www.opalexplorenature.org/sites/default/files/7/image/Invertebrates%2520guide-%2520UPDATED%2520FINAL.pdf

Polli:Nation guide and scientific study herehttps://www.opalexplorenature.org/polli-nation

Compare the data from your space with that of 260+ schools across the UK.. Begin your big SCIENCE investigation NOW.

This is a partnership project with: Learning through Landscapes, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Field Studies Council, OPAL,

University of Stirling, TCV and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust