Tuesday 6^th June 2017

A day to be proud of….we have earned the RHS Level 5 Award!!

Today we announced to the pupils that we have earned the RHS level 5 award. From the beginning of our ‘Food for thought’ project we had been saving photos and evidence to show how our business and garden had grown together.

We quickly worked our way through the first four awards but the fifth award needed a little extra effort to achieve with lots of written evidence and photos to support our case for being awarded the highest of the RHS school awards. We had to prove to the RHS that our gardening was a part of our curriculum and that we had shared our success with the local community as well as with other schools.

Here we are sharing our garden with Kathy Oliver, a member of the Wangford Allotment Association.

Kathy was amazed by our lettuces too!!

Luckily we had help our ‘big dig’ community events and with the help of Adnams we are now helping other schools to develop their own school gardens and ‘food for thought’ businesses.

As a part of the level 5 award we receive £200 worth of ‘National garden centre’ vouchers. We are now going to work out what we need to make our garden EVEN more efficient….and then reward ourselves with a garden centre shopping spree!!

Our RHS Level 5 award being proudly displayed around the garden!