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Polli:Nation is a UK wide initiative supporting pupils from 260 schools across the UK to turn their school grounds into pollinator friendly habitats. Set up by Learning through Landscapes, the project aims to engage and enthuse children and young people to protect pollinating species in the UK, with the outcome being to see an increase […]
Working with BEA Landscape Design Limited, HFN Landscapes recently installed a garden scheme at The Ridge Primary School, Stourbridge. Completed within the summer holidays and before the start of the 2018 academic year, the scheme is based within the school’s grounds and is a mixed play/learning/performance area with surfacing and soil retaining features. HFN Landscapes […]
Over the past few months, Landscapes Naturally have been busy in Coventry and Edgbaston, working with homeless young people aged 16-24, to help them transform their local hostels’ outdoor spaces to be welcoming and productive. Felicity Robinson, Director of Landscapes Naturally, works as a freelancer for Learning through Landscapes, a UK charity dedicated to enhancing […]
Witley Jones recently completed the manufacture and installation of two interactive teaching walls at Hollymount School. Working with fellow WEN member Hadleigh Technical Support – who supplied and fitted Interactive White Boards on each wall – Witley Jones combined the screens with storage cupboards, sliding whiteboard doors, open shelving and tray units. Headteacher Emma […]
Witley Jones recently donated and installed some much-needed locker storage at Cotswold Riding for the Disabled Association’s newly refurbished kitchen/toilet area, to provide facilities for the volunteers to safely store their belongings. Based at Cheltenham Racecourse, this excellent organisation provides opportunities for members of society with physical or learning disabilities, but has to rely heavily […]
Grow, Cook and Eat – Training Courses for anyone involved in teaching and inspiring young people Venue: Fairway Primary Academy Date: 7th March 2018 RHS horticulturists have teamed up with the Food Teachers Centre to provide a practical course to enable you to put pupils’ health and wellbeing at the centre of your school with […]
Simon Downes from Witley Jones Furniture in Stourport has been busy making a mud kitchen for Bewdley Primary School, for use in their outdoor area. Children love mud kitchens! They are a great way to get children outside and playing together with nature, in a creative way. Mud kitchens are very cross-curricular, meaning they can […]
Vale of Evesham students have planted ‘ballerina’ fruit trees with an undertaking of strawberries, with one of our members, Landscapes Naturally. They are looking forward to spring blossom, a tasty summer and productive autumn for years to come! Felicity from Landscapes Naturally, will be back in the Spring to help them make insect hotels for […]
One of our members, Virtus Consult, have recently been appointed by Cokethorpe School to undertake an ‘Energy Cost and Carbon Reduction’ assessment at the Oxford based School. Given the rising price of energy, there can be little surprise that many organisations are seeking to reduce their costs and their carbon footprint, seeking solutions that are […]
Would you like your children’s work on the front cover of the WEN directory and WIN £100? Please submit your ideas for the cover page. On issue 4 it was a photo of children working outside in the grounds with WEN member Landscapes Naturally, building a wall! Great fun, wet and messy, but also inclusive […]