Cultivating Global Citizens Through Living Learning Spaces
GROW at School enables schools to transform garden spaces into powerful catalysts for learning, wellbeing, and climate resilience.
Led by an experienced team with over 20 years in international education, we bring deep pedagogical expertise and a holistic approach to growing. Our work bridges curriculum, sustainability, and wellbeing supporting schools to embed meaningful, future-focused learning through nature.
WHAT WE PROVIDE:
Expert-Led Design & Delivery
Our diverse team, Educator Mary, Advocate Mick and Grower Richard, supports schools across the full journey from garden design and growing fundamentals to pedagogical alignment and long-term sustainability. We work collaboratively with leadership and educators to ensure garden spaces are purposeful, inclusive, and responsive to your context.
Curriculum Integration
We align your garden space with your Programme of Inquiry, using conceptual-based learning to connect outdoor experiences to classroom learning. The garden becomes an extension of the curriculum supporting inquiry, systems thinking, and transdisciplinary understanding.
Food Empathy and Global Citizenship
Through our Food Empathy Pillars, students develop a deeper understanding of food systems, culture, equity, and responsibility. This work complements global citizenship education by nurturing empathy, agency, and ethical decision-making.
Education for Sustainability
GROW at School aligns with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), supporting schools to embed sustainability as both content and practice. Students engage with real world challenges through regenerative growing, climate-responsive design, and hands on problem solving.
Regenerative and Climate-Resilient Practices
We introduce regenerative approaches that restore soil health, biodiversity, and resilience, scaffolding students in understanding their role in caring for living systems and responding to a changing climate.
Spaces as Educators
We believe environments teach. Gardens act as living classrooms, offering “wellness windows” into our world, supporting connection, regulation, and strength. These spaces foster collaboration, reflection, and a sense of belonging for the whole school community.
WHY GROW AT SCHOOL?
- International education expertise
- Alignment with global frameworks (ESD, GCE, conceptual learning)
- Practical, scalable, and context-specific solutions
- A focus on wellbeing, resilience, and agency
GROW at School helps international schools cultivate learners who are grounded, compassionate, and equipped to shape a more sustainable future starting in the soil beneath their feet.
HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU:
Online consultancy
Online Consultancy provides tailored professional support delivered remotely, designed to meet your school’s unique context and strategic priorities. Our experienced team works virtually with leadership and teaching teams to provide targeted curricular guidance at both individual and whole-school levels. Through video consultations, collaborative planning, and guided professional dialogue, we support the integration of garden-based, experiential, and sustainability focused learning into your curriculum. We can also model lessons virtually, using your classroom and garden spaces to demonstrate how hands-on, inquiry-based approaches can be embedded effectively within your existing programme.
In school consultancy
In-School Consultancy offers bespoke, in-person professional support tailored to your school’s context and strategic priorities. Our experienced team visits your campus to work alongside leadership and teaching teams, providing targeted curricular consultancy at individual, team and whole-school levels. Through collaborative planning, observation, and professional dialogue, we support alignment between curriculum, pedagogy, and learning environments. Where appropriate, our team models lessons with students within your own spaces, demonstrating how garden-based and experiential learning can be meaningfully embedded into everyday practice.
Professional development retreat week
The GIY Professional Retreat is an immersive, week-long professional development experience for educators, hosted at our showcase centre, GROW HQ (Waterford, Ireland). Designed as an in-person study opportunity, the retreat invites participants to explore the values, concepts, and practices that underpin Food Empathy. Through hands-on learning studios, garden-based experiences, and guided professional dialogue, educators examine the role of the environment as educator, regenerative growing practices, and food education. The programme is grounded in conceptual-based learning and aligned with Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education.
The week is highly collaborative and experiential, combining school and site visits with shared professional experiences. Participants engage in garden sessions, food preparation workshops, sensory herb exploration, and a harvest supper. Together, these experiences position the garden as a catalyst for resilience, wellbeing, and connection within school communities.
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
If you are an educator interested in finding out more, please fill in the form below and we will be in touch.
