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Brian Jones - "I find coming to The walled Garden Project interesting. I enjoy the gardening, especially raking up the leaves. It makes me feel happy to be working with my friends."

Benjamin Grainger - "I enjoyed doing the Walled Garden Project, I like planting things and watching them grow. My teacher is very nice and helps us a lot"

Thomas- "The Project is nice and the teachers are lovely, we grew lots of vegetables and we did some work in the woods"

Roger Peachey - "I love building the bonfire, collecting the sticks and making a wig-wam. Sometimes it's really cold outside but the hard work keeps me warm."

Elizabeth Hodson - "I like getting to meet people from other places with the same intersts as me. It's good to be working in the fresh air."

Dean Hicken - "I really enjoy doing the written work. I got a certificate last summer. I have it at home."

Tina Wyer - "I like working outside, it makes me feel healthy. I feel happy and tired at the same time."

Karl - The Summer activities were different, we did art and some of the same
gardening work. I get to practice my writing. They are nice people at the
Walled Garden Project. I get on with my tutor Rozz, she is ok. The Social
education staff are good to be with too.

Karl - I enjoy getting the land ready. I like doing the allotment plots. I have
learned a lot and I can use my skills away from Kilsall.

Robert - I like doing the gardens.

Mark - I like working with the soil.

Steve - I like working with others in the team. I like working outdoors.

Rich - I have known Rozz for a long time and enjoy working with her. I like working
in the classroom. I can use the skills I have learned at the Walled Garden
Project at home.

Rob - I have learned about planting bulbs and seeds.

Janet - I enjoy working. It's good fun.

John Bailey - The fresh air is good. I meet other people. I'm working with good staff.

Rebecca - I find that going to the Walled Garden Project helps me with conversation. It helps the way we interact.

Wightwick Hall School Wolverhampton

In my experience the Walled Garden Project offers a unique facility to enhance the learning of our students. Two groups of eight students take part. They have a range of learning difficulties including some on the autistic spectrum.

The Walled Garden Project offers a very stimulating experience which increases their confidence and gives them skills which aid their progress towards independence. At the same time it provides a real benfit to the environment through its rural activies. These skills are then taken back to school and then benefit our local community by enabling the students to use the skills they have learnt to initiate environmental and rural activites of their own.

I cannot express enough the good that has come of using the Walled Garden Project. Their staff are excellent and are able to communicate their enthusiasm to the pupils in way that they appreciate and understand.

Mr Lyn Thomas
School Liaison Manager

Walford & North Shropshire College Oswestry

The provision offered by the Walled Garden Project is the only one of its kind in the area. The rural activities that take place have proven to be of benefit to our students and to the environment.

Cheryl Greaves
Head of School, Continuing Education

Weston Park

The students enjoyed the challenge of the Project and were certainly stimulated by the practical activities taking place.

Claire Cumming
Special Educational Projects Manager

Madeley Court School Telford

The Walled Garden Project has provided a high quality learning environment to re-engage students who have found traditional approaches difficult to access.

Allen Baynes
Director, Student Services

The Lady Forester Willey Park

This Project has been benefitting service users over the past two years by providing practical experiences to people with learning difficulties and other disadvanted groups. The Project not only offers stimulating experiences for the participants but also offers a real benefit to the environment through the rural activities which take place.

The Lady Forester

Haughton School Madeley, Shropshire

We've been using the Walled Garden Project for three years to support the learning needs of children with special educational needs.

The Project has been of enormous benefit to our puils who do not have the oppotunities to experience the hands-on practical work that the Project offers.

The Project has been used to work with individual pupils, without which they may have faced an exclusion.

Mrs Belinda Logan
Head Teacher

Southall School Dawley, Shropshire

The Walled Garden Project provides an environment and opportunity for vocational work for students which could not be offered by a school. Students are enthusiastic about the activities and challenges offered. Content of sessions is varied and well planned, and the tools and equipment are provided on site. It is a wonderful learning environment for staff and students.

Progress in restoration of the garden is visible for the students and they feel part of the project. Project staff are enthusiatic, knowledgeable and totally professional in their approach and have created a very special working environment. Work is beautifully presented and students are proud of their achievements. Various accreditation schemes are in operation.

A worthwhile experience.

Alistair J. M. Bates
Head Teacher