This Special Needs Skills and Networking Bus Tour visits three very different garden sites that will inspire anyone working with special needs students in schools that are running the Kitchen Garden Program or are Kitchen Garden Classroom members. Join the tour to view the gardens, talk to school and Foundation staff, meet like-minded people and workshop ideas generated by the experience. Delicious fresh lunch included!
Join us for the Networking and Skills – Sensory Learning on Friday 14th for a two-day experience, register here
Details
We’ll start at a small school for students with specific needs, which has used its tiny school grounds resourcefully, packing in growing spaces and practical areas for small classes. Then we’ll head to the Friends Garden at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, a hospice setting for people of all ages with acquired brain injuries. This large and inspired sensory garden, though not a food production garden, offers a huge wealth of ideas perfectly applicable to school food gardens. A lunch break will see us at a large suburban school running an intensive food education program with a considerable cohort of students.
After our three school visits we will facilitate an informal garden design workshop enabling us to sketch, document and otherwise play with the ideas we have seen, developing ideas for sensory elements in our own school gardens.
If you have scale plans of your garden they may be useful to bring along (photocopies would be best, so that you can write or sketch on them).
Additional Details
The tour will begin at 9:00 am picking up participants at the corner of Flinders St. and Russell St, on the Federation Square side. Returning to the drop-off point by 15:30.
Special Needs Networking and Skills Bus Tour
This Special Needs Skills and Networking Bus Tour visits three very different garden sites that will inspire anyone working with special needs students in schools that are running the Kitchen Garden Program or are Kitchen Garden Classroom members.
Date: August 13, 2015
$165.00
Venue:
Federation Square
Cnr Russell Street and Flinders Street
MELBOURNE VIC 3000
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