CHSS winner of Skills Ontario’s Landscape Community Involvement Project
May 8, 2018
GUELPH, Ontario – College Heights Secondary School is one step closer to envisioning a multi-phase landscape concept on the school grounds.
CHSS has been chosen as the winner for Skills Ontario’s Landscape Community Involvement Project.
Skills Ontario Community Involvement Projects encourage youth to develop critical skills for their future, all while enhancing their local communities. An overarching goal of all of these projects is to make communities more inclusive spaces for everyone.
The Skills Ontario projects are split into three categories: manufacturing, landscaping and construction. CHSS was the successful school in the landscaping category.
Schools were asked: how can you enhance your community through a landscaping project? They were required to submit a summary or overview of their project, including project descriptions, timelines, sketches and information on how it will make a lasting and meaningful impact in their community. Schools were also required to describe the tasks students are responsible for and the skills they will gain through the project.
At CHSS, students from the Green Industries SHSM program teamed up with Construction students to plan, collaborate, and support each other while working on a multi-phased landscaping project.
The school had already completed the first phase of the project, which included raised planting beds and garden beds that were designed, built and installed on the school grounds.
Phase two of the project included the installation of two gazebos and will eventually incorporate additional planting beds and cedar benches.
In being named the successful school in the landscaping category, CHSS has won a truckload of paving stones from Permacon, and will use those materials in the next phase of the landscaping project.