Back to the Future
Our Eco Warriors are a team of Kingham Hill pupils who volunteer in their spare time to help grow their own fruit and vegetables in and around our polytunnel. They are assisted by a Kingham Old Boy Mr John Timmins who gives his time to teach the value of growing your own as well as other skills such as management of time, people, stock and planning ahead. In addition to this the pupils experience commercial viability and the value of labour when they sell the produce to the school kitchens.
Eco Warrior's are Volunteers
After school for one hour on Mondays and'or on Thursdays only.
The actual polytunnel was set up by the orginal group of Eco Warrior's and it has been producing vegetables since June 2010. This year (2011-2012) our volunteers have now started to develope this outside area adjacent to the polytunnel that is known as Area 51.
How & Why - Did they do that?
In the 1980s the school trustees decided to sell off the Kingham Hill School farm and gardens. For the previous ninety-four years the school had been self-sufficient.
In 2006 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) launched their Sustainable Schools Framework. The then Secretary of State for Education set out the challenging long-term aspirations: for schools to mainstream learning about sustainable development issues and sustainable practices into everyday school life.
September 2010
One group of the Schools pupils are undertaking a course
entitled: Environmental Land Based Science: one of the units in this course is to learn how & why to dig. The poly-tunnel cam into its own in this lesson Lesson notes were able to be produced on these aspects of digging. Highlighting the WWII
Spring becomes Summer 2010
Spring becomes Summ
er 2010
It was in the spring of this year, 2010 that my research took me to a college and a commercial enterprise who use Polytunnels as both teaching and commercial ventures. I did this to find out just what would be the best set up to suit the schools needs.
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