Budding Minds: STEM Horticulture for Primary and Early Years

Six week online evening course (Monday evenings) with 1 practical day in Helensburgh on Wednesday 4th March 2026, 10AM-3PM.

This course is delivered by experienced horticulturists who have been teaching horticulture for many years and will provide you with invaluable hints and tips for delivering practical horticulture in a fun and manageable way that fits into a term time pattern.

Course Content

• School calendar & timings: seasonality, mapping activities to the school year, reducing holiday committment
• STEM and Horticuture
• Horticulture and environment: Health and wellbeing
• Starting our: Tools, equipment and facilities. PPE, risk assesing
• Plant identification and plant groups
• Maintenance / cultivation (soils, hedges, pruning)
• Design - what to grow and where to put it
• Propagation (seed, cuttings, division)
• Vegetables, fruit & flower production (organics): Link to healthy eating
• Net Zero /sustainability considerations
• Project ideas / case studies

Curriculum for Excellence Mapping & School Planning - how to evidence horticultural activity against school environment aims and STEM targets, will be embedded throughout the course.

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Want to speak to someone about the course - contact: Kate Hunter

Email: acbusiness@uhi.ac.uk. Tel: 07350373919