Stewart Garden has named the top 10 schools in the Stewart Garden Schools Campaign with Pippa Greenwood 2014. The schools are competing for a prize of £1,100.
In alphabetical order, the top 10 schools are:
- Aqueduct Primary School, Telford
- Bradley Barton, Newton Abbot
- Cherry Tree Primary School, Lymm
- Great Arley School, Thornton Cleveleys
- Hook Lane Primary School, Welling
- Long Sutton County Primary School, Long Sutton
- Lough View Integrated Primary School, Belfast
- Stourport Primary School, Stourport-on-Severn
- Westonzoyland Community Primary School, Bridgwater
- Wilden All Saints CofE Primary School, Stourport-on-Severn
The campaign challenged participating schools to show their creativity and inspiration with their Stewart Garden kits. Entries included DVDs of children using the kits, photographs, drawings, videos, scrapbooks and slideshows.
In total, 100 schools across the UK, from the Isle of Wight to Stirling, participated in the Stewart Garden Schools Campaign with Pippa Greenwood 2014. The aim of the competition, which was first launched in 2012, is to encourage pupils to get involved in grow your own. In the 2012/13 campaign, 95 schools took part, with the winning prize going to Lough View Integrated Primary School in Belfast.
Pippa Greenwood, BBC Gardeners' Question Time panellist, BBC Gardeners' World columnist and judge for the campaign, said: "I thoroughly enjoyed looking through all the entries for the Stewart Garden Schools Campaign 2014. It's great to see children growing plants, especially fruit and vegetables, and learning so much. I congratulate everyone who got involved."
Each school received a garden kit worth over £400. Inside the kits were three varieties of easy-grow vegetable seeds from Pippa Greenwood's own range. Compost was donated by participating garden centres and professional grower's specialist, J Arthur Bowers. Pupils received a booklet produced by Stewart Garden. Also supporting the Stewart Garden Schools Campaign 2014 is the global electronics company, Brother, who supplied its sophisticated GL200 garden label printer.
The top ten schools have received a visit from the judges. Once their feedback is collated and analysed, the campaign winner will be announced in September 2014.
The winning school will receive £1,100 to be spent at their local garden centre. Nine runners up will each receive £500, with £100 of each prize being donated by J Arthur Bowers.
Pippa Greenwood is one of Britain's most popular gardening columnists, a respected author and regular broadcaster. Pippa's writing commitments include BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and a monthly page in NFU Countryside Magazine. For eighteen years, Pippa was the gardening columnist for The Mirror newspaper.
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