During this course, the children and primary school students of the Colegio l'Arenal have worked in the school garden program, Ecoescoles. The center of Xàbia is one of the five schools participating in this Educational research and innovation project.
Throughout the school year, students of children have planted their vegetables, which after the harvest, have elaborated different dishes such as: "With the broccoli we make tortilla, broccoli in tempura and boiled. With the lettuce we have made salads, and the children have tried them", Explains one of the teachers of children.
Children have learned, in a different way, how nature works thanks to the coexistence with it, since they have learned to see how a plant grows."they themselves have planted in seedbed first and then have made the transplant to the garden", Commented the teacher.
And is that, through this educational project, students learn the role of nature, "They also know the animals that live in the plants, the function that each insect has, and if it contributes a good or bad consequence to the plant", Said the teacher.
The result of this activity and the experience they have had with the orchard were told on Thursday by five-year-olds together with some four and three-year-olds at an event in Calpe.
A day where all participating centers shared their practice. In the case of the L'Arenal school, "The experience is positive, the children had, day by day, a motivation, worked in the school garden and saw how nature evolved", Explained from the center.
Many are the varieties of vegetables that have been planted in the school garden of the school of l'Arenal. Now, schoolchildren will wait for the next course, on the month of October to collect the fruit of the pumpkin, which they have recently planted.
