Primary schools! - take the vegetable challenge
The Department for Education and Skills' 'Growing Schools' programme has teamed up with Aardman Animations to encourage more primary schools to create an 'outdoor classroom' to help their pupils learn about diet, nutrition and the natural environment. The 'Great Vegetable Challenge' competition is open to primary schools in England, who are invited to submit an A3 sized design showing their ideas for an ideal new growing space or expansion of an existing one within their schools grounds. All schools must register on the Growing Schools website at -
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/growingschools
...where they can download entry forms and terms and conditions. All entries will receive a teachers' resource pack containing fact sheets demonstrating how each subject in the National Curriculum can be taught in the 'outdoor classroom.'