Charity Focus

EDUCATION

Community eduction with the co-op

Harvest Workers Co-op based in Okehampton runs the Harvest Farm Shop in Red Lion Yard and regular community education projects and events. All its work Is based on growing an understanding and involvement in the production and use of local, seasonal, organic food.

It has been interesting responding to the challenges of COVID. The Co-op has been learning to create online content and video editing alongside the supply of fresh organic produce to the community!

Cooking workshops Recipes are being collected that use simple and seasonal ingredients in interesting ways. Katie’s Mother Hubbard’s Hash Browns are really tasty way to use calabrese stalks! www. harvestworkerscoop.org.uk/site/growing-plot-to-cooking-pot/ hashbrowns/

Seasonal family workshops These are a mix of gardening activities, creative, seasonal cooking and storytelling. Usually based at the wonderful EcoHub next to Okehampton College, they are now being presented online through words, images and video. September’s workshop will be about Autumn Apples. The details will depend on the guidelines that time but keep Saturday, September 26th free!

There is a growing online storytelling collection taken from the family workshops at www.harvestworkerscoop.org.uk/site/ seasonal-tales/

The co-op hopes to offer face to face family workshops in the autumn. Please keep an eye on social media or email for information.

Farm walks Martin and Sara will be running these during Autumn - look online for details and dates!

Visit www.harvestworkerscoop.org.uk/site/education-andcommunity-workshops-on-line-and-active/ for all the latest information.

Harvest Workers Co-op is very grateful to Learn Devon who support the Family Workshops and Growing Plot Project and to Okehampton United Charities which supports the whole program.

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School creates a life-defining experiences

If you like the outdoors, have a sense of adventure and are keen to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way then Mount Kelly is the school for you.

Our spectacular location means that we are well known for our strong commitment to co-curricular activities and we encourage all pupils to take part whether it be camping out on the moor, paddling a canoe, riding the waves on a surf board or enjoying an overnight sail in our 50 foot pilot cutter ‘Olga’. We call it the ‘Mount Kelly Spirit’ an attitude to life that develops here, one that allows pupils to really experience the life-defining educational experience that we promise. With a high standard of academic schooling and a proven track record in public examination results, over 85% of our pupils gain places at their first choice of university. The school has an internationally recognised coaching facility for swimming with a four-lane 25m pool and an eight-lane 50m pool and has had alumni at the last five Olympic and Paralympic games. In 2020 Mount Kelly won the prestigious Arena League, confirming our place as the top school for swimming in the UK. Our swimmers board and are taught alongside their contemporaries. The College Chamber Choir is the flagship ensemble of the School. The group perform a wide range of challenging music from all periods and in a huge variety of styles, but mostly a cappella. They won the Barnardo’s School Choir of the Year Competition in London in 2020 and compete internationally every year.

The success of our swimmers and singers create a culture in which the level of commitment and dedication required to excel are not considered out of the ordinary, but are qualities to which everyone can aspire.

The school was selected as a finalist for the Independent School Parent Magazine’s Independent School of the Year Award in 2019 and this year is a finalist in the Performing Arts category.

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