Course Title

Venue: The Attenborough Arboretum, Carisbrooke Road,  Leicester. LE2 3PG

Email: botanicgarden@le.ac.uk

Dates & times: 29th March, 2011 (9.30am to 3.15pm)

Tutors

Dr. Richard Gornall: Director of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden and senior lecturer in botany. Actively involved in working with school children across all key stages delivering educational programmes.

Ruth Godfrey:  Education Officer at the Botanic Gardens. Teacher. Actively involved in working with school children across all key stages, delivering educational programmes. Has worked with several schools to establish a school garden and outdoor learning areas.

Kate Hodges: Graduate designer.  Experience in garden design and landscaping

Jo Green: Professional landscape gardener. Has worked with schools on garden design projects

Maggie Frankum: active member of the BumbleBee Conservation Trust. Has a keen interest and sound working knowledge of which plants are bee-friendly and thus promote pollination in the garden.

Number of places available: 8    -  20

Target audience: Primary and secondary school teachers

Course description: An exciting course that will include: a visit to a school garden and discussion with the staff who created it, a look at school needs and how a school garden can support the curriculum, a session on garden design and a chance to consider and be given advice on your own school grounds and how even unlikely corners can be transformed.

Learning Objectives:

1)    Use of planting to support the curriculum

2)    Identifying suitable and unusual spaces for planting and looking at what is possible and what is not

3)    Learning from case studies

Location: The Attenborough Arboretum, Carisbrooke Rd, Leicester. LE2 3PG

Date: 29^th March 2011

Time: 9.30 – 3.15

Cost: £75 (including lunch)