The Six Seasons Gardens at Flinders Park Primary provides 6 outdoor classroom settings.  Teachers and guest speakers can use these living classrooms to demonstrate topics relating to the Menang people of the Kinjaarling. Students learn about caring for Country and experience an oral tradition, absorbing through concrete, hands-on activities.

The Six Seasons Gardens represent the local area, from the Fish Traps to the Porongurup. Moving between the spaces represents how, in the past, the Menang people travelled through Country at different times of the year.

The Six Seasons Gardens project was initially by Southcoast Natural Resource Management in 2013.  Flinders Park Primary School consulted with parents, with the guidance of Briony Arnold. Enthusiastic parents, including a major contributor Justine Grey, and students, designed mosaics, collected rocks and moved them to the site, planned the gardens, propagated native seed and planted the gardens.

The six gardens as we know them today are:

1. Fish Traps (near staff car park)
   1. All vegetation planted by students and parents
   2. Artwork was designed at school and produced by Designer Dirt (Justine, Sarah and Ian)
   3. Cert 4 Students from TAFE worked with their lecturer Ron Grey to do the earthworks and install the sculptures
   4. The intention is for classes to sit in the garden and discuss the history of fish traps etc
2. Bush Tucker (near bike shed)
   1. Cert 3 students from TAFE worked with their lecturer Ron Grey to plant this garden
   2. The garden also had a koornt, which was eventually removed due to continual vandalism
   3. The intention is for an outdoor learning space – with education on housing and bush tucker
3. Re-vegetation Garden (between Art and Library)
   1. Students, staff and parents planted seedlings in the area to build it back up after the transportables were removed
   2. Rocks were collected and students worked with Sarah McNamara to design a walkthrough path
4. Green Island Mural and re-vegetation garden (near cricket nets)
   1. Parents built the sandpit and planted surrounding gardens in 2016 to represent Green island
   2. The mural was added through work by Chappy, Mr Clapp and students to enhance the story
5. Potting shed garden (near gardener’s shed)
   1. Designed for classes to go and plant seeds, learn about horticulture and revegetation
6. Yarning Garden (between block 4 and 5)
   1. This is an area where students yarn together. Teachers also bring classes to this green space.
   2. We are hoping to further develop this area in the future.