Sowing and Growing project celebrates its success

Families from around Cornwall gathered to enjoy various activities linked to “Sowing and Growing” at Lanhydrock Memorial Hall in October.

The invited parents, carers and children had all taken part in a Pre-School Learning Alliance Family Learning (PSLA) – Routes to Improved Health and Well Being project earlier in the year.  This event was organised to celebrate their achievements.  Throughout the day, children enjoyed such activities as face painting, planting a “lasagne pot” with Bodmin nursery, pebble painting with Cornwall Community Re-Paint, and creating leaf rubbings with Little Eden and forest school activities with the PSLA.  They particularly enjoyed getting up close and personal to a burrowing owl called Peanut (who brought the Bird Lady of Fowey with him)!

Project coordinator, Dawn Lambert said that the event had been a great success: “We are so grateful to our colleagues from Eden, Egloskerry Pre-School, Reed, Adult Education, Bodmin Nursery and Garden Centre and The Bird lady of Fowey for making the day so memorable.”

The project (part funded by the European Social Fund) will continue until December 2019.  “Sowing and Growing” aims to improve the health and well-being of families with children under 5 years of age throughout Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.  Sessions run in pre-schools, toddler groups and Family Hubs and centre on a planting theme each week, coupled with stories, crafts and cooking.

Many of the adults who have taken part have continued onto training with other providers and some have acquired volunteering experience and work.

Feedback from parents has been overwhelmingly positive.  One parent commented:  “I have done a childcare course and paediatric first aid course.  I gained more confidence meeting new people and I am now working”

If your setting is interested in hosting a future course please contact Dawn on 01208 269512.