HCGA has been delivering educational sessions for over thirty years. We have an award winning team of school gardeners who provide environmental education sessions in schools on a weekly basis. These include formal curriculum-linked activities as well as lunchtime and after school clubs. Our staff are highly trained in environmental education, food growing and wildlife gardening. Other topics covered include: weather, life cycles, habitats, history (Tudors and World War Two food).
We work across three boroughs with pupils from nursery through to post 16 including children with special educational needs.
We run CPD training throughout the year and also provide bespoke CPD sessions for schools at our sites, for example we have hosted the entire teaching staff of a local school at the Glasshouses in Ravenscourt Park for a 2 hour session.
We have built up a collection of activities and have worked with many schools and nurseries locally, running one-off workshops, short-term projects and longer-term contracts around growing, food and environmental art. We also guide groups on how to make their premises more environmentally friendly and give technical growing advice. We have designed growing and wildlife areas in several local schools and our teams of volunteers have undertaken the landscaping work during school holidays.
For further details about arranging one-off or regular sessions please email info@hcga.org.uk
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Click the links below to get information and inspiration on what to do each term in the school garden:
Get Growing Autumn Term- What to do in the garden and seasonal activities
Get Growing Spring Term – What to do in the garden and seasonal activities
Get Growing Summer Term – What to do in the garden and seasonal activities
We currently work with 9 schools on a weekly basis in Hammersmith & Fulham and Ealing boroughs:
- St Augustine’s Primary School, Disbrowe Rd
- Larmenier & Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
- Hammersmith Academy Secondary School
- Cambridge Secondary School
- Flora Gardens Primary School
- Kenmont Primary School
- Brackenbury Primary School
- Wendell Park Primary School
- Christ the Saviour Primary School, Ealing
We work in 12 schools on a fortnightly basis in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (funded by RBKC Ecology Service):
- Ashburnham Primary School
- St Charles Catholic Primary School
- St Clements & St James Primary School
- St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
- Bevington Primary School
- St Thomas’ Primary School
- Kensington Queensmill School
- Avondale Primary School
- St Francis of Assisi Primary School
- Bousfield Primary School
- Oxford Gardens Primary School
- Thomas Jones Primary School
We work with many other schools on an ad-hoc basis and deliver educational sessions for schools at our gardens.