Ama Chaney & Zana Wood co-directors of Grow to School CIC bring together skills in environmental science, food growing, participative art & writing to create an organisation that connects children with their learning through being outdoors.
Grow partners with schools enabling them to deliver curriculum-led outdoor learning, food growing and cook and eat sessions in an efficient and sustainable way. Learning outdoors is proven to improve children’s engagement and behaviour, improving results as well as confidence and well-being.
Grow sessions complement classroom teaching and liven up curriculum subject areas in exciting and challenging ways. They involve no additional planning, provide active CPD and help children be more active participants in their learning and their environment.
Ama and Zana’s aim is give all children the opportunity to learn and grow inside through being outside.
“Brrr, it’s too cold, I’m not going out in that!”... “Yuk! It’s raining, I HATE getting wet, and my shoes aren’t waterproof.”… “I know they aren’t going to hurt me, but I’m scared of things that fly and buzz.”... “I don’t like getting dirty”. Familiar excuses they may be, but they rarely come from the mouths of children. Too often it is teachers who reluctantly drag themselves outside, feeling like fishes out of water and miles away from the comfort of the classroom.
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