"Growing Your Own Produce" - Our Community, Our commitment

 At Chad Varah Primary School all our teaching and learning is project-based and from February to June 2013 the topic in our Year 6 class is based on growing your own produce. Everything we are learning about is focused around this topic whether it has a maths focus to an art focus. We are aiming to grow our own fruit and vegetables to harvest in June as we are planning on entering a local school's challenge set by organisers of the Lincolnshire Show. We will be taking our grown produce to the show and making available our topic work for visitors to view in a hope of winning the competition.

Our main aim of this project is to educate and inspire beyond the walls of our school - we are looking to involve the local community and invite them to take part and grow their own produce to enter the Show with. We aim to research and inform our school and the community of the benefits of growing your own produce such as healthy eating  and its economic value. Our project is currently in the early stages where we are working as a class to research, learn and become well informed in all aspects of the topic.

We have recently written letters to local garden centres to ask for donations of seeds to start us off and we are also looking at selling these seeds/produce to people in order to raise money to develop our garden so that we can continue to grow more produce in the future. We have also been to a local supermarket to survey the varieties of produce they sell and its origin, we are looking at going to visit a local produce market to make comparisons.

We are very enthusiastic to contact other schools which are involved in similar projects so that we can share ideas and information, comparing and contrasting to widen our knowledge base. Our children have become very engaged and passionate about this topic which has also opened many avenues for us. We will keep you updated with our progress of the topic and our aspiration of inspriring the local community to grow their earn. We hope that this will strengthen the home/school link and we would be interested to hear from anyone who wishes to contact us.  

Here is to a more happy and healthy lifestyle! 

From Year 6 and all at Chad Varah Primary School.