Sadeen's Sunday Garden Dig Narrative

Learner: Sadeen                                                             Date: October 2015

Learning Area: Community Garden Clearing Day             Learning Coach: John Dyer

Learning Observed

Our school and learners are on a mission to make our school a place to learn and grow. That’s both us and in the garden! This term, the Yoyo Learning Group have been researching, brainstorming and planning projects to carry out during Term 4. One of the projects is about preparing and planting one of the gardens. It has been decided that pumpkins will take pride of place in some of the bed and the rest will be voted on. To complete the preparation for the bed, learners were invited to come to school on Sunday morning to complete the digging and clearing. It was great to see Sadeen come and get involved, especially as she is in a different learning group. There was lots of collaboration going with tools and jobs. It was hard work clearing many of the well established weeds but Sadeen persisted and worked hard to ensure the soil was ready for action. It will be exciting to observe developments in the coming weeks and to see if we can end up with a harvest of fruit and vegetables in the Summer / Autumn. Hats off also to Sadeen’s sister, Wasaam, who all came to help did. You both did great!

Evidence of learning

Here are some of the Team clearing the bed. You can see how established the grass and weeds had become! After some stages of work and Sadeen’s hard grafting, the final result is a bed ready to produce next season’s harvest!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable

Next Learning Steps

Sadeen had demonstrated an interest in these projects and is happy to help in future. It would be good for her to identify where other help is needed and put together a project of her own that can run with some of the other learners.