Tutors

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

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