You may remember a short while ago I hosted a giveaway with Sudocrem for their Get Out And Grow Giveaway getting children out into the garden.
Get Out And Grow Primary School Competition
I am now very happy to advise you all that I am now a Get Out And Grow ambassador. To celebrate Sudocrem are launching their new Get Out and Grow school gardening kit giveaway, just in time for summer. This new incentive is to encourage students to head outside. To get planting, growing and learning about just where fruit and vegetables come from.
Get Out and Grow
They are launching this great incentive because according to a recent survey, 90% of children said that they would like a garden at school. And one primary school in Lincolnshire, having 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 a school garden later. The same school has won the national Pearson award for School of the Year.
Mr Coy insists that the children love den-building, just generally getting dirty and nature hunts.
Sponsored by Sudocrem
Sponsored by British skin care brand Sudocrem, the Get Out and Grow project was created following research that suggested gardening is being forgotten and many children lack basic knowledge about the natural world and where their food comes from.
Although 87% of British households have a garden. Over half of British children aged between 4 – 8 are unable to name 5 vegetables or fruits grown in them, and 95% were unable to name 3 herbs.
Many of the children could not identify gardening tools, with only 8% able to identify a trowel, and 80% had never seen a rake before.
73% of the children asked said that they had never grown a sunflower. While only 8% had ever picked an apple and less than 10% had dug up a vegetable and 6% had never tasted a pea straight from the pod.
The Competition
Starting in June and running throughout the month. Get Out and Grow will award one school gardening starter kit to 20 schools nationwide. The kits will include:-
Bromet School
Nonsuch primary school
Wroughton academy
John Rankin Junior School
Comley Park Primary
stornoway primary schol
st ursulas junior school
Gossops Green Primary School
Crescent School
St Matthew Primary School, Prudhoe, Northumberland
Ystrad Mynach Primary School
St John’s RC Primary School
St John’s Meads Primary School
Lyne and Longcross CofE Primary School With Nursery
Codicote JMI School (Codicote, Herts)
Eastbourn Primary School , Everton West Yorkshire
Sorry Eastbourn School , Steeton West Yorkshire
Doagh Primary
Filey nursery and Infants Academy
Glan Llyn Primary
Manor School, Didcot
Howbridge junior school
Hertford Infant School in Brighton
St Marks COE Primary School
St Peters CofE Primary school Henfield
sir Robert hitcham ,framlingham
Ightham School
Emsworth Primary School
Whiteheath School
Bradway primary school
Thorton Primary School
Alder Bridge
Christ Church Pellon Halifax x
broadway school sunderland
Bleak hill primary school
oasis academy pinewood x
beetham c of e primary school
Garrick Green Infant School
Holy Cross Catholic Academy
colmore
Lakeside Primary, Cardiff
St Johns Catholic Primary of kirkdale
St Mary’s
Morley Victoria Primary School
Park School, Blackpool
Cairney Primary School.
Tuckswood Academy and Nursery
St Margaret’s CofE, Leeds
My chosen school would be Carrick Knowe Primary school x
St Georges Primary School and Nursey York
North Kidlington Primary School
St Annes C of E Primary School
Cranmore Integrated Primary & Nursery
Escomb Primary School
Robert Miles Infants School, Bingham
Whinhill Primary school.
Boxgrove Primary
Helmshore Primary School, Helmshore
Renhold Primary
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Blackrod Primary School ((Good Luck everyone))