We aim to enhance children’s enthusiasm and real life experiences of growing produce and incorporate it with the schools’ current chickens production of eggs that enables our community, which is suburban and has a majority of socially deprived families with limited access to basic provisions of a garden, to be able to experience first-hand where and how food comes from. Children will be actively involved at all stages and understand and be responsible for the care and management of the produce. Further, our aim will feed into our long term objectives of encouraging children with both food choices and consequences. We wish to build on encouraging our children to be healthy individuals across many aspects of their lives, including promoting healthy eating as a life necessity. In order to become self-sufficient and sustaining, part of the re-launch would need to engage in the purchase of materials such as a greenhouse, propagating resources, tools, irrigation, pots etc.

What we'll deliver:

• Cold frames
• Gardening tools and equipment
• Irrigation system

Why it's a great idea:

Childrens' enthusiasm and real life experience of growing produce will be first hand for all children that may never have the opportunity of gardening and growing. Food grown will be utilised in the school's healthy eating agenda and included where possible in daily school's meals. Children will have first hand experiences of knowing and understanding of where their food comes from. Children will have an active role in growing and suggesting ideas for food sources, responsibility will be given to children of learning how to grow food from seed to young plant to mature produce.

Steps to get it done:

• purchasing the equipment and set up
• digging and planting
• maintenance of the plots and growing produce
• Harvest time and produce sharing with school meals

As we are a Gold UNICEF Rights Respecting School and Gold Mental Health and Well Being school, we now wish to raise this profile significantly, through engaging activities that include dedicated clubs, linked curriculum and all school children, to become a whole school every day experience that is accessible to all.