Page 18 - Eco-Schools Wales Newsletter, Spring 1 2023 - english
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Local Places for Nature
Keep Wales Tidy’s Local Places for Nature scheme has boosted dozens of
schools across Wales to become areas for nature and learning to thrive.
Within these areas, learners also experience the satisfaction of growing
their own food. One school to benefit from a Food Growing Development
Package gives an account of their experience.
“A garden and Polytunnel have Starting work in September 2022, the
existed on the school site for years, latest Year 10 group worked extremely
though unfortunately they had hard to transform the space. Of
been neglected for some time and course, it must be emphasized that
therefore suffered and in a bad state. almost none of the development
would have been possible without
Since we started the new Land the equipment and resources that
Studies Course from City and Guilds, Keep Wales Tidy provided, which
we decided to carry out renovation have been extremely valuable.
work on the site.
