Garden Plotters launches exciting new workshops

We are very excited to announce the launch of Garden Plotters, a vibrant new organisation helping primary school children learn essential life skills and helping teachers deliver key curriculum objectives.

The best way to inspire future gardening generations is to catch their imagination and interest when they are young.

We want children to……

• Open their eyes and broaden their perspective to the creative possibilities of what can be achieved in a garden
• Engage an interest in their own gardens
• Understand why design is important and learn about design skills for future interest
• Connect to the natural environment and understand why it’s important to create and sustain wildlife habitats
• Connect to the fundamental aspects of plants & horticulture – edibles and ornamentals and the basics of care
• Undertake a project from idea to implementation – maybe a school garden designed and built by the children
• Engage in a topic that covers and builds on core skills in the national curriculum. Specifically covering many science, design & technology and maths curriculum objectives
• Be happy and healthy, develop practical skills, build self-esteem and promote a healthy lifestyle

We will help teachers by…..

• Supporting the delivery of the national curriculum
• Saving valuable time having to search for resources to cover a variety of different subjects
• Saving valuable time having to learn & deliver specialist subject matter

Take a look at our workshops to see how we can help you and your primary school

All our workshops are risk assessed and linked to the national curriculum

Let's meet the team ....

Garden Plotters is the brainchild of Anthea Thomas, a woman with a passion for all things verdant!

Jill Crooks is a farmer’s daughter who re-ignited her inner spark for the outdoors by switching from IT design to garden design….”plant pests before computer viruses, any day!”

Sam Matthews began studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. After a little detour into the world of industry and food science, Sam began to try and get others enthusiastic about the natural world: first as a secondary science teacher on the Teach First programme and, most recently, as a volunteer officer and sessional staff member with The Conservation Volunteers, helping primary school children to learn about nature by being outside.