the birth or Urban Farming GCSE...

Lady Luck was definitely on my side when we started the Urban Farming course for keystage 4 students because i had on our staff one of the most successful and experienced people in the world of ASDAN learning.  This system allows young people to achieve challenges based around learning new skills, working with others, communications and the like but the focus of each challenge can be anything you like (within reason).  So in Feb that year I teamed up with Jacci and we set about fitting challenges that count for GCSE equivalent points to the demands of a school garden/farm.  By March we had advertised the course to the up and coming year group and already had keen interest from them and their parents full of the enthusiasm we had shared that meant they could learn to grow their own vegetables or work as a team keeping chickens or bees and gain real life qualifications at the same time. In September 2010 our first cohort of 12 year 10 students took on the course and by October 3 others had transferred in from other courses as well...Urban Farming was born