Working with young people in the Park

• Make an impact on changing and modifying behaviours and attitudes towards learning beyond their time at school.
• Enable the learner to achieve a sense of success and pride within the curriculum offered.
• Develop the learners’ social, emotional and behavioural skills.
• Introduce learners to new skills and opportunities that they may not have been involved in previously.

Apart from digging out thistles we have been making and filling a large composter, creating and filling raised planting beds in which the group and other community park users can grow food crops, learning and hopefully consuming the products in the process. We will be exploring our beehives and honey production, the many varieties of fruit tree in the orchard and looking at wildlife in the pond among other activities.