The latest update is that it looks like Duncan and I will be giving our first workshop to the children of College Road Primary school on Monday!!!
That is really not that far away, and although we are fairly prepared, its rather nerve racking!
How do these teachers do it - i have just written my first lesson plan, and my they are as bland as a cucumber sandwich! The lesson aims to be an introduction to teachers and children about how to look after seeds/plants, their life cycle in comparison to our own, and the important aspects of healthy living. Our activity for this workshop will be planting seeds which aims to reinforce these ideas and begins the first few steps to the allotment.
Anyway off to finish sorting the remainder of bits and pieces to do before Monday.
Keep you posted,
Emma
Sowing Seeds is a project initiated by BA Fine Art students Emma Saunders & Duncan Wilson. The project aims to educate school children on sustainable living and healthy eating through forms of experimentation, exploration, enjoyment and play using the social form of gardening.
Having achieved funding from and with support from SIFE, Emma & Duncan are now working alongside the Students Union within the University of Plymouth and the Youth Offending service to create a vegetable garden within College Road Primary School.
Sowing Seeds is also in conversation with Diggin' It! allotment scheme Plymouth, to help inspire the children as to what they can grow. Through this blog Emma & Duncan hope to build an online community where College Road Primary School can converse with other schools with similar intentions including Mylor Bridge Primary School, Cornwall, where Duncan has initiated a similar project.