General aims of these sessions:

• Encourage family to be ‘green’ at home
• Examine easy ways of being ‘green’
• Inspire parent and child on ‘green’ issues
• Promote literacy and numeracy through ‘green’ topics
• Improve communication as a family, and between home and school
• Parents learn in a relaxed and friendly environment

Course objectives:

To encourage parents and children to:

• Share the learning from Green schools work with families
• Grow your own food, how long does it take to grow a salad?
• Promote wildlife in your garden. Build a bug hotel, grow flowers and herbs.
• Estimate food waste, and creative ideas on how to reduce or recycle
• Examine how energy is made, used and how usage might be reduced
• Identify how families use water and how it might be reduced or recycled
• Measure the numbers of birds and bird types in the garden/ outside your home
• Identify the insects that live around your home area