Intervention
What’s the difference between intervention and education?
An intervention style approach is focused on celebrating the success of the individual, thus building their self-esteem, and fostering a positive relationship with education. Attendees may come every week, or use the allotment as a drop in. We find the best fit, for your school and your children. An education style approach focuses on knowledge application, embedding and recall.
Allotment Intervention
All our staff are “Trauma informed”, meaning we understand the impact that trauma can have on children’s behaviour and communication.
Studies have found that spending just a small amount of time in the garden can help to reduce anxiety and improve low mood in both children and adults.
Visit this article by the British Phycological Society to read more.
In an intervention-based session you can expect us to celebrate pupils success rapidly and frequently. We find this helps to build self-esteem and self-belief, as well as expose children and young people to new experiences and potential career streams. We work on small, achievable targets that give rapid gratification.
Raising plants from seed is incredibly gratifying. We have the knowledge to enable this success, whatever the weather, whatever the season, whatever the space.
All our sessions are filled with knowledge, but in interventions we focus less on knowledge retention and more on “being in the moment” and recognising how gardening makes us feel.