Gateway Qualifications
Level 3
QN: 600/9674/3
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Gateway Qualifications Level 3 Certificate In Plants and Planting Design
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Gateway Qualifications. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 239 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
Gateway Qualifications
Syllabus Units
9 Units
Guided Hours
239 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Essential Enterprise Know How
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the competing demands, pressures and motivations that face an entrepreneur
- Understand the financial aspects of running a small business enterprise
- Understand the marketing, sales and customer service functions within a small business enterprise
2
Garden Design Customer Service
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of good customer service in a garden design business.
- Understand possible consequences of poor customer service in a garden design business.
- Understand the value of first impressions.
- Understand positive verbal and non-verbal communication with customers.
- Understand the importance of respect for the individual in customer service.
- Understand how to deal with complaints from customers.
3
Garden Design Documentation and Legislation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to devise a plant schedule.
- Be able to prepare documentation to support the implementation and maintenance of a planting scheme.
- Understand legislation affecting the garden design process.
4
Garden Design Solutions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to respond effectively to different garden sites and client briefs.
- Be able to work to an acceptable timescale to provide planting and design solutions.
- Be able to provide planting design solutions for domestic sites.
- Be able to evaluate own garden design work and that of others.
5
Plant and Garden History
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the development of garden design through history.
- Understand changes and developments in horticulture and plant use within a historical context.
- Understand the history of plants and garden making in a socio-political and economic context.
6
Plant Observation and Analysis
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand appropriate plant selection and association through own observations.
7
Plant Studies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role played by trees, shrubs, wall shrubs and climbing plants in the garden.
- Understand how to use herbaceous plants and bulbs to extend the seasons of interest in the garden or landscape.
- Understand the design qualities of plants.
- Know a wide range of plants.
- Know factors to consider when using poisonous and hazardous plants in the garden.
- Understand plant association.
8
Planting Design Appraisal
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to review and develop a successful planting scheme in accordance with written proposals.
9
Plants and their Environment
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand factors affecting plant selection and growth.
- Understand how to create a planting scheme in harmony with environmental and climatic conditions.
- Know a range of plant adaptations and their role in plant growth and survival.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 600/9674/3
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Gateway Qualifications
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jul 2013