Silver Award from Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for Supported Learning Students
Thursday 24 June 2010
Students from Glasgow College of Nautical Studies working together with CK Grows win a Silver Award at the Gardening Scotland 2010 Pallet Garden Competition from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society.
Gardening Scotland is Scotland’s national celebration of gardening and outdoor living and this years Show took place place from Friday, 4 June until Sunday, 6 June at The Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. More than 400 exhibitors took part in this year’s Show including some of the top plant breeders in the UK and the cream of Scottish garden design talent.
Students from the Supported Learning Section designed and built a Pirate themed entry and were delighted to be awarded a SILVER MEDAL from the Scottish Horticultural Society.
Christine Mailley, class lecturer said, “Working with the CK Grows project over the past 6 months gave us confidence to take our green fingers one step further. We decided to enter into the Pallet Garden Competition and began by deciding on a theme for our garden. Being from Glasgow College of Nautical Studies we decided on 'Pirates'. We sourced items to help decorate our garden from local charity shops, around the college and also made ornamental creatures from modelling clay.”
The students planned the garden design in the college workroom and then built the garden on the Thursday prior to the Show at The Royal Highland Centre and they all worked extremely hard developing and laying out their pallet garden.
“We grew some plants from seed and were also sponsored by IKEA who kindly donated cacti plants. The finished garden looked amazing and all the students and staff involved were very pleased with the result.”
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies offers several courses in Supported Learning for students with moderate/severe learning difficulties. For further information on our range of courses within the School of Social and Community Studies please visit our website at www.gcns.ac.uk or click here.
CK Grows is part of Common Knowledge (CKUK), providers of online learning, accessible information and social networking for people with learning difficulties. For further information on CKUK please visit the CKUK website at www.ckuk.org.uk/.
For further information on Gardening Scotland, please visit the website at www.gardeningscotland.com/.
