Cath B
28 Jun 2010, 05:22 AM
....and teaches new skills accordng to a report commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10427338.stm
The cynic in me says "Well, of course that's what the RHS would clam."
The smug so-and-so in me says, "Hah, I sussed that out years ago."
The report ... found children in schools that encouraged gardening became more resilient, confident and lived healthier lives.
The RHS syas school gardening should be used as a key teaching tool, rather than as an extra-curricular activity.
"The changeable nature of gardening projects - where anything from the weather to plant disease can affect the outcome - forced children to become more flexible and better able to think on their feet and solve problems."
Febble's commented on something similar re her school rose hip gathering expeditions.
The first school my parents taught in, shortly after the end of WWII, included an allotment with crops and chickens among their teaching resources. And the produce was used!
But gradually such activities were deemed old-fashioned and irrelevant in an increasingly technological society.
Now they're staging a come-bsck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10427338.stm
The cynic in me says "Well, of course that's what the RHS would clam."
The smug so-and-so in me says, "Hah, I sussed that out years ago."
The report ... found children in schools that encouraged gardening became more resilient, confident and lived healthier lives.
The RHS syas school gardening should be used as a key teaching tool, rather than as an extra-curricular activity.
"The changeable nature of gardening projects - where anything from the weather to plant disease can affect the outcome - forced children to become more flexible and better able to think on their feet and solve problems."
Febble's commented on something similar re her school rose hip gathering expeditions.
The first school my parents taught in, shortly after the end of WWII, included an allotment with crops and chickens among their teaching resources. And the produce was used!
But gradually such activities were deemed old-fashioned and irrelevant in an increasingly technological society.
Now they're staging a come-bsck.