This summer Wellington Primary School won a trophy at the London Children’s Flower Society. They were presented with this award by Alan Titchmarsh at the Guildhall!
Cassie and Alan!
LCFS Trophy
Homegrown Bread
This year we are lucky to have been given some home baking kits to be given out to our Star Bakers in the Homegrown Bread workshop. Many thanks to the Worshipfull Company of Bakers and to Kitty for these prizes.
Some of our Star Bakers
Kitty’s home baking kits
Taking part in our Homegrown Bread workshop
Orchard’s Makeover
Orchard Primary school’s garden has been given a makeover with the help of some fantastic volunteers from L&Q and Morgan Sindall. Thank you all so much for all your work and the funding to help us achieve creating a fantastic new garden area which is perfect for our outdoor learning workshops. The gazebo is a very welcome addition as it allows our lessons to run outside no matter the weather!
Our helpful volunteer team!
Out with the old planters in with the new!
A fantastic new outdoor learning space
Coronation Seeds
I am delighted to have been a part of this initiative to help schools to connect through planting seeds to celebrate the King’s Coronation.
King’s Coronation 2023: Why are primary schools receiving wildflower seeds?
We’re joining forces with the Eden Project to send thousands of packets of wildflower seeds to primary schools across the country to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
This will give schools the opportunity to mark this historic moment, while helping children to learn more about the importance of biodiversity.
Why are we sending schools wildflower seeds?
This initiative is inspired by His Majesty the King’s commitment to the environment. Working with the Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre, over 200,000 seeds packets will be sent to schools.
If planted together, around 40 rugby pitch sized wildflowers meadows would be created. The packets of seeds include native annual wildflower species, like cornflower, corn poppy and corn chamomile.
Planting the seeds will be an opportunity for children to engage with the natural world and learn more about the importance of biodiversity, as well as being a way for them to celebrate a historic national moment.
The Living Line
Carpenters Primary School was selected to be part of an ongoing contemporary art project called the Living Line.
The Living Line is a site-specific commission by East London-based illustrator Somang Lee. It visualises the plants, birds and insects that can be discovered along the route of The Line, encouraging people to explore the wealth of wildlife in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and along the waterways.
During the development of the commission, Lee led workshops at Pudding Mill Allotments with Year 5 students from Carpenters School. The resulting drawings are featured in The Botanical Gallery at the centre of the installation.
Lord Mayors Show
Grow Your Own Playground pupils were are asked by the Worshipful Company of Bakers to be part of their float for the 2022 Lord Mayors Show. We had a fantastic day walking the streets of London waving our homegrown wheat.
Breaducation
This article appeared in True Loaf magazine issue 43, July 2020.
School food matters grant
One of my schools was awarded a garden grant from School Food Matters and the Wholekids Foundation. Watch the film above to see the difference a garden to make to a school.
To coincide with the launch of my new book “Grow Your Own Ingredients – Jam & Jelly” I gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph.
London Produce show
I was delighted to be invited to work with The Embassy the Netherlands and the London Produce Show on another competition to get children more engaged with eating fresh fruit and vegetables.
The three winning schools were invited to attend the London Produce Show at Grosvenor House Hotel, London to meet food growers from all over the world, for a VIP tour. Prizes were kindly donated by Rijk Zwann for the Netherlands, Jan Hutchinson from New Spitalfields Market and Paul Rochford from the Worshipful Company of Gardeners.
