Horticulture
Delivering a practical course covering a wide variety of Horticulture skills from sowing seeds, using machinery to maintaining gardens. Students benefit from a practical course to understand the wide array of jobs which can be entered into throgh a horticulture qualification. From setting up your own garden maintenance round, to maintaining the lawns n a golf course or specialising in nursery plants.
Programme of study
Course Outline
Our Horticulture courses are accredited by the Skills and Education Group. All our courses are based on project-based learning with six projects taking place across the year. The projects build on prior knowledge, skills and behaviours and work towards producing a product or feature.
The Horticulture course enables students to be a part of exciting new projects this year including designing a decorative feature, planning the launch, and selling plants to the public!
Our Horticulture team are highly experienced and come with industry backgrounds. We have an array of employers that we work with who get involved in our projects and support relevant external work experience for our learners. Many of our students progress on to become keen gardeners or work within the Horticulture industry.
Levels
We offer a range of courses from Entry Level 2 up to Level 1 at our Swale sites.
Our Level 2 provision is currently offered at
Muddy Wellies only.
Sites
Our students benefit from a diverse array of opportunities available at three distinct locations situated in Ashford and Swale. Each site boasts its own unique characteristics, shaping the nature of the projects undertaken.
The Walled Garden serves as a Victorian and Georgian traditional walled garden, while Muddy Wellies offers a rural setting focused on the cultivation and sale of fruits and vegetables.
Meanwhile, The Nook features a traditional pottage garden and a polytunnel for year-round growing.
Pathways
At Craftworks College, we are aware that all our students progress at their own rate therefore our pathways adopt the waves model of intervention to enable all students to succeed from their individual starting points. Students capable of achieving a full qualification follow the Universal Pathway.
Students that need their learning broken into smaller steps follow the Targeted Pathway, here they focus on one unit at a time and achieve Unit Accreditation. Students that require our Specialist Pathway have a bespoke timetable which breaks learning down into even smaller steps to ensure that they are able to achieve at their own specific level.
