WIN a Get Out and Grow Gardening Kit for Your School*
*Terms and Conditions apply
Just in time for summer, Get Out and Grow, is launching an incentive encouraging students to head outside and get planting, growing and learning about just where fruit and vegetables come from.
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Why launch an incentive?
Why? Because according to a recent survey, 90% of children said that they would like a garden at school and at one primary school in Lincolnshire, a school garden made all the difference when it came to pupil’s behaviour.
The Benjamin Adlard Primary School, run by headmaster Sam Coy, was previously rated by Ofsted as one of Britain’s worst schools. Four years and one school garden later, and the Gainsborough school has won the national Pearson award for School of the Year: Making a Difference.
Headmaster Coy insists: “The children absolutely love den-building, just generally getting dirty and nature hunts. One child recently told me that he loves going to the forest school on a Tuesday afternoon so much as it helps him to behave all week as he never wants to not be able to go.”
Win a Get Out and Grow Gardening Kit
Starting in June and running throughout the month, Get Out and Grow will award school gardening starter kits to 20 schools nationwide. The kits will include children’s wheelbarrows, gardening gloves, mini-trowels, seeds and lessons on how to make the most of a school garden. And the good news is, I am giving away one of those kits!
Sponsored by British skincare brand, Sudocrem, the Get Out and Grow project was created following research that suggested gardening is being forgotten and that many children lack basic knowledge about the natural world and where their food comes from.
Did you know?
Despite the fact that 87% of British households have a garden, over half of British children between 4 and 8 are unable to name 5 vegetables or fruits grown in them and 95% were unable to name 3 herbs. Many of those couldn’t identify gardening tools, with only 8% able to identify a trowel, 80% never having seen a rake before and, worrying, 79% believing worms are bad for plants.
73% of those asked said they had never grown a sunflower, while only 8% had ever picked an apple, which perhaps explains why they’re unable to name even one. Less than 10% had dug up a vegetable and only 6% had ever eaten a fresh pea from the pod. Based on this evidence, it is perhaps unsurprising that only 20% have ever eaten a vegetable they’ve grown themselves.
How to Enter
If you would like to nominate a Nursery or Primary school within a 20 mile radius of Crewkerne in Somerset then you are eligible! Entry is really easy. All you need to do is fill in the widget below stating your chosen school and where they are before 1st July 2019 for them to be in with a chance to win.
Pack includes (worth £160):
– Children’s wheel barrow
– Small Watering can
– Extra long fork
– Extra long spade
– Children’s hand spade x6
– Children’s hand spade x6
– Children’s gloves x6
Get Out and Grow Gardening Set
Please note that I was compensated for this promotion.
Cygnets Pre School Ilminster my grandchildren go there the doing things out doors in there garden
Musbury moles Evo preschool would love this as they have started to build a grow your own area for the children but are short of supplies and this would really help them out so much. Thank you
Buckland St Mary school pupils would love this. They would be able to use it in their community garden
Tatworth Primary School would love to win this prize so that we can involve the children in turning a patch of overgrown brambles into a wildlife garden and nurture space that will give children somewhere to enjoy one to one and small group teaching. Some of our children have no outside space at home and this will give them a chance to try gardening and growing
Colyton Primary School have children that come alive when they are able to learn outside. We don’t have a lot of tools but what we have really makes a difference to the children. They just love to get muddy and plant ANYTHING! What we grow the school gets to taste – some tasted broad beans for the first time in their lives.
The opportunity to be able to get more equipment will be so helpful. Also it will reduce the rush and arguments we have over the tools we have.
I would love for st barts school to win this prize, they love doing things outdoors they have a group called the eco council they recycle, grow beautiful plants and herbs, even have a stall sometimes after school to sell some of their products, this prize would help them to achieve alot more my daughter is part of the eco council and she loves it