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Capital Growth for Schools

We want to help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by 2012.
Why not make your school one of them?

We want to encourage all London primary schools to have a food growing area, whether that is on a balcony or on the school playing field. 

Capital Growth works with communities to identify suitable patches of land for food growing around London, offering practical support and advice throughout our network of spaces. Find out more

School Competition

In 2010 we launched a Capital Growth Schools Competition to encourage more primary schools to start a food growing project. The competition closed in June 2010.

There were three categories. Here are the results:

Bugs and Slugs
a garden focused on biodiversity

Winner: Pooles Park Primary School, Finsbury Park, Islington

Highly commended: St Stephen’s CE Junior school, Twickenham, Richmond.

Runners up: Wandle Valley School, Sutton; East Sheen Primary School, Richmond; Middlerow Primary, Kensington & Chelsea.

Collect and Create
a garden encouraging the reuse and recycling of 'waste' items

Winner: Chatsworth Primary School, Hounslow

Highly commended:  Fairway primary school, Barnet

Runners up: Bedonwell Infant & Nursery School, Bexley; Starksfield Primary, Enfield; Baden Powell School, Hackney.

Climate Cool
a garden designed to cope with a changing climate

Winner: South Harringay Infants School, Haringey

Highly commended: St David’s College, Bromley

Runners up: Montem Primary, Islington; Johanna Primary, Lambeth; St Joseph's Primary, Islington.

 

Schools Competition photos from Flickr

 

Read the Greater london Authorities "London’s top food growing pupils unveiled" press release.

We will launch another competition for 2011 and details of which will come soon.