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A school herb garden can provide a valuable source for learning
within the school environment. This web site gives examples of how
both a primary and a secondary school did this from scratch.
Click
here to see how to make a simple herb garden.
National curriculum
The Early Years: Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- using a magnifier to look at plants and creatures from the
garden
- using garden implements to improve coordination, control and
movement to gain confidence
- to learn how to look after plants - their need for light and
water
- gaining information by imitation of adults and older pupils
Science at both KS1 and KS2
SC.2 Life processes and living things
- Green plants - 3a, b, c, and at KS2, d
- Variation and classification - 4b and at KS2, 4c
- Living things in their environment - 5a, b, c , and at KS2, 5e
Topics that could arise from using the herb garden include
- growing and caring for individual plants (especially the need for
water and light)
- measuring their progress (making comparisons)
- monitoring the best/less good growing conditions (including soil
and nutrients)
- growing herbs in pots from seeds saved from the plant for later
planting
- discovering which herbs attract insects
- finding out why plants need insects
- making a 'plant profile'
Other links with the national curriculum include:
- History - research into history of herb gardens; where
herbs come from and how they got here; famous herbalists and their
legacy; how modern medicine derives from herbal medicine, etc.
Pupils could evaluate solutions used, for example, during The
Plague - did they work? If not, why not? What food did
people eat? How did they disguise bad tastes? Explore
the use of herbs in dyeing clothes
(KS1 1a,b 2a,b, 4b, 6a,b KS2 1a,b 2a, 4a,b, 5c, 7, 9, 10)
- English - developing appropriate vocabulary,
communication skills, poetry, drama and stories.
(KS1 1b,c,d,e, 2b,c,e 3a,b 8c, 9a,b, 10a,b,c, KS2 En1, En2, En3)
- Mathematics - patterns, symmetry, measurements, tables,
graphs, sets, etc.
(KS1/KS2 Ma3, Ma4)
- Information Technology - using computers for research and
recording information (e.g. in data bases) and graphics.
(KS1/KS2 1a,b,c 2a,f, 3a,b 4a 5c)
- Design and Technology - covering food technology e.g.
explore different ways in which herbs change the taste of food as
in pizzas, for example.
(KS1 1a,b,c 2a,b, 3a,b, 4a,b,c, 5a,b,c, KS2 1a,b,c. 2a 3a, b 4a, c
5a,b)
Reference to the NC in this web site
Throughout this web site, we
include reference to the National Curriculum. But most
of the site is aimed at children and we did not want to
clutter the pages with these references. So, we have
used the following NC logo
Hovering your mouse over the logo (on other pages) will refer you to
the relevant parts of the NC.
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