#ScienceOnTheSofa Talking Science #COP26 International Green Academy - Planting seeds of #climateawareness & action through #gardening in Glasgow high schools. Dr Cheryl McGeachan University of Glasgow 🌿youtu.be/KySTH7fTRjs Cheryl McGeachan UofGGES 🌍 InternationalGreenAcademy Drumchapel High

Looking forward to taking part in this event & hearing lots of questions from the community 🌱

Discussing climate justice in our garden class today Govan High School Thanks so much to Rosanna for leading the session & all the pupils for their creative poster making! 🌎

Thanks to Leeds Social Sciences Institute for featuring our project & keep reading till the end to find out details of our forthcoming Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science event in Leeds - we would love to hear from schools in Leeds interested in taking part! 🌱

Come and join in the discussion - it is open to everyone! 🙂 We will be sharing our collaborative work with CATCH Leeds Drumchapel High St Mungo's Academy Lourdes RC Secondary Boclair Academy in the session 🪴

Our new Garden Technician group Drumchapel High started learning the ropes today with our Chief Garden Tech John 🌱John is an original member of the garden group who is now taking the lead & helping other pupils get involved! Ally Harris

A great sunny afternoon out at CATCH Leeds with Dr Ian Shaw to count plants & pollinators in their fab community garden 🦋🐝🌻

Our first attempt at growing pumpkins 🎃🎃🎃

Join us now to discuss Growing Against Inequalities: a Climate Beacon for #COP26 Join our live chat now with Cheryl McGeachan Dr Ian Shaw InternationalGreenAcademy fraserjfstewart ⚡️ Lewis Hou #Explorathon21 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Excited to see a feature about our Green Technician Programme appear in University of Glasgow Avenue Magazine 🌱 Thanks to all the students that have taken part so far across School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, UofG🌍 @POLISatLeeds University of Aberdeen gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue…

Really looking forward to taking part in this event on World Mental Health Day and running our workshop Building New Worlds: Eco-Anxiety & the Climate Crisis 🌱 Agnes Berner

New garden groups bring new garden challenges! 🌱 Proud of the progress made by our Garden Technician group Drumchapel High today in the sunshine ☀️ Ally Harris Iain Corbett 💜

Thank you so much to Agnes Berner for running an amazing workshop on eco-anxiety today (despite tech issues!) - so proud of the work that Agnes has helped with & inspired in the IGA 🌱

The young people at CATCH Leeds have worked for months preparing, planting, feeding & now harvesting their pumpkins from seed - such a great achievement! 🎃

As our school partners take a well deserved October break we reflect on our recent garden fun Drumchapel High for Glasgow Science Festival in our new blog post internationalgreenacademy.org/news-and-blog/ Ally Harris Iain Corbett 💜 🌱

Places available for our first Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science event: Supporting the Climate Generation: Young People & Environmental Justice in Leeds 🌍 Join us CATCH Leeds where we showcase young people's voices on environmental action in the city internationalgreenacademy.org/events/

Excited to see the progress made in the well being garden over the last few weeks thanks to GUEST 🌱 Even in the rain it was lovely place to take a break from the day 🌧 looking forward to our Geography well-being week session next week!

All hands on deck Drumchapel High today as students prepped the wood for making new benches for the garden 🌱

Seed planting, wood cutting and bench building! Another banger of a Wednesday at Drumchapel High!!! Thank you InternationalGreenAcademy and Ally Harris …I’m learning as much as the pupils! Love itttt🙌🏼🙌🏼

Moise has been our chief pumpkin farmer this year and we are so proud of his achievements! Thanks Moise 🎃🌱