The EPICC Garden Project

We aim to develop our school garden to educate our students about where their food comes from, and to promote sustainable ways of producing food. Our students are given the opportunity to gain knowledge, expertise and life skills through hands-on, skills based learning. The work we do with out students in the garden is a vital vehicle which our staff use to build relationships, deliver nurture sessions and re-engage our students who at times can experience barriers to their learning.

Thursday 9 October 2014

The Launch of the Adamson Scholarship

Opening the new garden at Southlands School, left to right, Alan Elsbury, Dorothy Oglethorpe, Brandon Johnston, Margaret Sharp, and James Davison

Today we were celebrating the opening of The Adamson Scholarship garden at Southlands School.

Dorothy Oglethorpe and Margaret Sharp came into school today to officially open the Scholarship Garden. They were joined my students from Southlands School and John Spence who will be our first students to go through the RHS pre-level 1 qualification.

Opening the new garden at Southlands School, Dorothy Oglethorpe, left and Margaret Sharp

This has been made possible by a generous donation from the John and Florence Adamson Trust, and will eventually see 30 young people through the course over the course of 5 years.

Southlands School pupil Adam Ikin, works in the poly tunnel in the garden

Here one of our Yr 11 students is harvesting some of the last of our chili peppers in our poly-tunnel.

Southlands School pupils Adam Ikin, left and Jack Miller, work in the new garden

Two of our students are preparing the ground inside our new raised beds.

Teaching Assistant at Southlands School, in North Shields, Sean Kirkup, digs over the existing garden wit the help of pupil Jack Miller

Digging over the raised beds in our garden.

The EPICC Garden Project

Thursday 9 October 2014

The Launch of the Adamson Scholarship

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