Chen Shouren Primary School of Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk, located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, has always been one of the primary schools with the largest number of applicants in Hong Kong. In 20 17 * *, there were 8 100 students enrolled in the school, but only 150 students were admitted to the primary school, so the competition was fierce.
Yang Yongming, the principal, has worked in education management for more than 25 years. He deeply believes that children's development has unlimited possibilities, and happiness can be found through different interactive experiences and self-pursuit. He emphasized that to better the world, you must first better yourself. People and plants are the same. If you want to get better and better, you must have methods and space. Education, on the other hand, is to prepare an appropriate environment for children to grow up under irrigation like crops. ?
Hong Kong has a narrow land and a dense population, and its agricultural development is not as developed as that of Taiwan and Japan. 20 14 1 month, Yang Yongming had a unique vision. He used the space on the balcony on the top floor to set up an "organic garden for guarding the garden", created a course for small farmers in the city, combined with community resources and local organic operators, so that living ecological education could be carried out on the roof, and parents could roll up their sleeves and roll up trouser legs to "go to the fields" to play the role of cultivators. The balcony on the seventh floor is hot in summer and cold in winter. How to create a friendly environment and choose the right seeds for sowing is a major issue.
With the development of more than 400 cultivation boxes, Shouyuan has grown more than 50 kinds of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and with the help of farmers' parents, it has gradually blossomed and borne fruit-not only has it been certified as the "Hong Kong Organic Resource Center", but it has become the first school in Hong Kong to obtain organic certification for planting, and the harvested organic farming has also become the most reassuring nutritious lunch for children.
20/kloc-in may, 2006, parents published a book "Garden comes from organic" based on their experience in planting organic crops in "Shouyuan". In the book, six crops 16 are associated with children's personalities, such as carrots and purple sweet peppers in spring, pumpkins and amaranths in summer, aubergines and corn in autumn, and radishes and tomatoes in winter. By planting crops, the author talks about the feelings of parenting, and at the same time holds a new book conference, accepts media interviews, and promotes crops to the community.
From the perspective of parents, they enrich their children's campus life, let everyone feel the mystery of nature, and also realize different parenting experiences: it turns out that planting melons and fruits can wait for harvest without sowing and watering.
Yang Yongming, the principal, said, "It's really not enough to just put a seed." Every step of the process from scratch can't be sloppy. For example, purple sweet pepper is a delicate princess, so she should always water it frequently, and there should not be too much water. She is afraid of being cold and too hot, but she may not grow well after all the farming, so she has to wait patiently. Amaranth is fearless and easy to grow, but it can't grow without thinning seedlings. There is no special method for corn, but each plant has its own development and different forms ... All kinds of plants have their own growth reasons, which is the law of nature. In the circle of education, students are like a hundred fruits and flowers. Try to use the method that suits them and wait for the right time. ?
Someone asked President Yang Yongming, why not plant a single plant, such as corn with high economic value? He said that children come from different environments, and we can't just cultivate a single kind of children; Someone asked him why he chose to apply for organic certification. He said that with certification, it will help us to be more serious. It has been suggested that after planting, it can be sold for profit. He said that we are running education and attach more importance to the process than the harvest. ?
The great gardener stressed, can everything in the world be satisfactory? Parents are like farmers, children are like crops, everything has a time, sometimes life and death, sometimes planting, sometimes growing, and sometimes thriving. Many times, you take good care of it, but it just doesn't bear fruit. As a parent, you "have to wait". ?
From the third year of primary school, children will attend the course of "Small Farmers in the City", learn to plant corn, learn to loosen soil, fertilize and assist in reproduction, and have a hands-on experience for about three months, including biological and scientific knowledge. Establish a friendly relationship between land and nature in the urban jungle, and the hands-on participation of parents and farmers has also become a part of parenting education.
The organic garden of Chen Shouren Primary School in Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk has enabled teachers, students and parents to learn a lot from farming on the seventh floor of the classroom. Children learn not only ecological education, but also the attitude of cherishing things and thanking heaven. The participation of parents and farmers also understands the way to educate children. Walking into the community is to connect with the society. This platform, which combines point, line and surface, is full of vitality and influence.
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