An Educational Field Trip to Inspiring Kindergarten Gardens Will Offer Practical Sharing and New Ideas

Participants will visit two of the foundation’s partner kindergartens, Větrník Kindergarten in Nymburk and St. Jakub Church Kindergarten in Kutná Hora, as well as Telecí Kindergarten, the foundation’s educational centre. The main part of the programme will be guided tours of the gardens led by the headteachers and lead teachers from each school.

They will show how they use the gardens as a fully‑fledged space for the educational process and how everyday kindergarten life takes place there. The tours will also include time for participants’ questions and an open discussion focused on specific practical experience.

The meeting creates an opportunity for sharing experience among teachers and other actors in education. Teachers from Krušnohorská Kindergarten in Karlovy Vary, which is only preparing for the transformation of its garden, as well as students from the University of Hradec Králové, will also take part. The field trip will offer a chance to see different approaches to working with a school garden and to discuss how to use it as a natural part of education.

The programme in the kindergartens is prepared by the foundation, which will also provide participants with supporting materials. The technical organisation is ensured by the founding body, which is preparing the event as part of cooperation within the Transformations of Gardens programme of the Karel Komárek Family Foundation.