Booths is inviting green-fingered primary schools across the north of England to compete in a ‘Grow Your Own’ competition, as part of industry-led initiative the Year of Food and Farming.
The competition will see pupils and teachers grow their own fruit and vegetables at their school, with the chance to win £1,500 to spend on gardening or cooking equipment for use in lessons. In order to enter the competition, schools have to submit their entries in the form of a short creative video or photo diary, showing the children planting their gardens and growing their produce, by July 4.
Booths aims to help teachers relate the growing activities to many other curriculum areas, such as creating graphs to chart your progress in ICT, calculating the measurements of the fruit and vegetables for maths and drawing pictures for art and design.
The competition will be judged by Eric Robson, chairman of the BBC programme Gardeners’ Question Time, together with two of Booths’ fresh produce experts Matthew Bruno and Val Gibson.
“It is important that all children have a healthy, balanced diet, and growing fruit and vegetables is a fun and easy way for children of all ages to learn about how things grow and where their food comes from,” said Bruno. “Booths is keen to support schools and encourage sourcing local produce wherever possible.”
Three finalists will be invited to bring some of their finest produce to the awards ceremony at Booths head office in Preston, where Robson will present them with a gold, silver or bronze award on July 15.
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