and raising awareness of global issues
WHAT'S NEW
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
LMLG Management Committee meeting - Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 8pm at Southfields Library, Southfields Drive, Leicester LE2 6QS
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - Mon 30 January - Fri 3 Feb 2012 and Mon 17 - Fri 21 Sep 2012 Food for Thought Experience Programme.pdf
GLOBAL EDUCATION LEICESTER-SHIRE - Termly meeting - Tuesday 6 March 2012 from 4 - 5.30pm - Venue TBC. Minutes of previous meeting.
Linking Local Lives - Creating Global Connections FREE training for schools
UPDATES and NEWS:
Latest bulletin from Nicaragua - No 24 - Second results out.pdf
Major environmental issue affecting the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Go to our News page to read more.
Global Gardeners
promoting education for sustainable development
Global Gardeners is a programme of participatory activities for schools which provides active education for sustainable development to stimulate a deeper understanding of the relationship between plants and people in our local lives and on the global scale.
The project is currently being developed to respond to the DfES’s Sustainable Schools Agenda, to provide a whole school approach through the 8 doorways, with clear curriculum links and opportunities for community participation. The link with Nicaragua provides the focus for the Global Dimension with clear outcomes for Local well-being which are highlighted alongside.
Inclusion & Participation are inherent in the methodology of the project and encourage the involvement of the whole school and wider communities. Each of the other 5 thematic doorways are addressed through discrete but interconnected activity modules:
- Food & Drink - Growing and use of plants
- Energy & Water - Access to and water conservation
- Travel and Traffic - The journey of plant based products from the farmer’s field to the market place
- Purchasing & Waste - Fair trade, packaging and consumption of resources
- Building & Grounds - Creating a mini-garden on the school grounds