Seeds to Success, St Ninian’s High School

This project will support the school’s new Support for Learning space and adjacent garden with Kinder boxes decorated by pupils, for which the children will select books to support their emotional, sensory and environmental needs. Creating a safe and welcoming space for pupils to read outdoors and relax, Seeds to Success will encourage mindfulness and the wellbeing benefits that both reading and nature can bring for young people, staff and parents.

‘I can barely begin to say how much this funding will change the lives of some of our most vulnerable young people,’ says St Ninian’s Librarian and project lead Donna Baird. ‘In assisting in creating and developing a new and sustainable SfL library, the CILIPS Green Libraries Scotland Grant Fund will indeed plant the “Seeds to Success” for our students. From a portable library collection, to seed diaries to self-selection and ownership our Green Library will flourish under the careful management of the pupils themselves with minimal guidance from staff. I have been thinking about this project for a number of years and to finally be able to realise it will be quite an emotional journey. Thank you so much to the panel for seeing the value in our scheme.’

Listen to Donna speak about her experience of applying to the fund and hear all about the Seeds to Success project: