Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Sensory Community Garden

The Brown Hill Progress Association and Caledonian Primary School (CPS) wish to establish a garden that can help foster a stronger bond between the school and its surrounding community. CPS has a renowned science program and the garden would include a range of STEM-related focusses, including cooking facilities and a weather station and irrigation system, which would be run using a student-designed computer program. The garden users would include students, staff and parents involved in the school and members of the Brown Hill community who wish to establish their own plots or assist with growing, harvesting and preparing the produce.

Members of the Brown Hill community have been searching for a location for a community garden. At the same time, Caldeonian Primary School has been establishing the first stage of a paddock-to-plate program. By expanding the garden at the school, the needs of the school and wider community can be met in the one location. In addition, the sensory element of the garden is vitally important given the increase in the number of children enrolled in the school with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The sensory garden will be an important inclusion tool for these children during school and post-graduation.