Date :     Thursday 27th April 2023
Time :     4.00 - 5.30pm
Venue :  Tralee Education Support Centre

Biodiversity in the School Grounds and Teaching Outdoors CPD

Practical outdoor workshops at Tralee Education Support Centre, 1 workshop per month from February to May (standalone – come to any or all workshops!). Discover the biodiversity in your school grounds, the connection between food growing and biodiversity, using the outdoors as a classroom, linking outdoor teaching to the curriculum and take away resource ideas, lesson plans and manageable practical biodiversity projects to try with your class.

Please contact Cathy Eastman on 085 7782289 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details.

Habitats in the School Grounds – The Vegetable Bed - 27th April 2023 - 4-5.30 pm

• What is a habitat?
• Different options for growing vegetables – lazy bed / no dig bed / raised bed
• Who else lives in the vegetable bed?
• Curriculum links, including Nature Literacy and Wellbeing
• Perennial vegetables e.g. globe artichoke, asparagus, Babbington leek, wild garlic
• Practical outdoor class projects in April – start a no dig bed and plant potatoes; plant an example of perennial vegetable
• Resources
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