News

26/04/2012 - WIN show ticket to RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show or RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.

01/05/2012 - For the RHS Young School Gardener of the Year we will be providing cameras with videoing capability to those that are short listed. We are keen to provide cameras (either camcorders or cameras that create videos) that are easy to use and one's that school's may already be familiar with. Please email us at schoolgardening@rhs.org.uk if you have any recommendations.

03/05/2012 - Descriptions of school gardens are NOW LIVE on the ‘map of schools’ page of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening website.  To see the description, click on the flower icon for a school and then click on ‘About our garden’.  Click here to find your school!

25/04/2012 - Launch of the RHS Young School Gardener of the Year competition at the RHS Show Cardiff - Friday 20th April.

27/03/2012 - RHS Young School Gardener of the Year 2012 - do you know any young budding gardeners?

30/04/2012 - Growing Schools Conference 2012 - find out how the day went. 

26/04/2012 - Take part in a mass sunflower growing experiment and help the man that cracked the Enigma code in WW2.


13/04/2012 - RHS says Thank You and Happy Anniversary to the Helen Hamlyn Trust.

16/04/2012 - The 2012 Bee Scene Survey is officially launched!

13/04/2012 - National Trust - 50 things to do before you're 11 and three quarters. 

12/04/2012 - Find out how to conserve water in your school garden

11/04/2012 - Green Day 2012: Registration Now Open.

30/03/2012 - Register for The Marie Curie Mini Pots of Care by the 5th October and receive your FREE planting kit and educational resources.

27/03/2012 - Open Futures’ National Primary Curriculum Conference - Wednesday 11th July, West Bromwich.

22/03/2012 - FREE Pea seeds for your school.

22/03/2012 - FREE Garden Explorers drawstring bags to give away. Find out more

23/03/2012 - Beetles and Bees interactive workshop at your school. Find out more.

01/03/2012 - 2012 RHS Photographic Competition is now open.  Encourage your pupils to enter.

22/02/2012 - Berryhill Primary School in Wishaw, N.Lanarkshire is the 15,000th school to join the Campaign!

22/02/2012 - We have 200 sets of 3 RHS/DK sticker books to give away to the first 200 schools that benchmark for the first time. Find out how.

07/02/2012 - Sign a petition to save our outdoor education centres.

30/01/2012 - NEW Moving Up, Growing On SEN Report

06/02/2012 - The Big Wildlife Garden competition 2012 - enter your school on their website today!

20/01/2012 - Grow gerberas for the School Garden Olympics - find out more and to register.

19/01/12  Free potatoes and strawberries for your school!

19/01/12  Free WoodBlocX raised beds for your School!

19/01/2012  Climate Week 2012 Registration Open

03/01/2012 - The Hedgehog Street Challenge game - why not give it a go?!

29/11/2011 - Growing Schools/RHS Campaign for School Gardening - conference 2012.

01/12/2011 - School orchard offer from Fruit-ful Schools - school orchard kits available. See right-hand side panel for more information. 

29/11/2011 - Green Schools Revolution  - this sustainability project from the Co-op gives signed-up schools access to classroom resources and activities.

21/11/2011 - Farming and Countryside Education - Children's understanding of food improves! Read more on this in the right-hand side panel.

21/11/2011 - Find out about the charitable work of the RHS

21/11/2011 - Landscove Primary School's level 5 presentation video

11/11/11 - Why not take part in the Giant Beetle Hunt in your school garden? See right-hand side panel for more info.

11/11/11 - If you have any questions about mammals both in the UK and overseas then why not ‘Ask an Expert’ by emailing webster@ptes.org

02/11/11 - RHS Young Photographer of the Year - the winners revealed.

21/10/2011 - An away day for the RHS Community and Development team

22/09/2011 - How can bees help improve behaviour?

22/09/2011 - Seed saving and swapping in School

21/09/2011 - £500 for your teaching resource.

09/09/2011 - Morrisons - Let's Grow 2011 - start collecting vouchers for your school.

08/09/2011 - Please welcome our new Regional Advisors for the North West and West Midlands.

08/09/2011 - Take part in the Compost Heap Invertebrate Survey.

08/09/2011 - Urban greening - A RHS science review launched at this year's Chelsea Flower Show demonstrates how urban greening can save our towns and cities.

25/08/2011 - The aim of Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots programme is simple yet powerful. Find out what some schools have achieved through the programme.

19/08/2011 - Plantlife’s Wild About Plants project has launched easy-to-use activity packs for parents, teachers and youth workers.

19/08/2011 - The Dairylea Community Fund gives you the chance to win £4000 for your community.

18/07/2011 - St Edward’s Royal Free Ecumenical Middle School wins top prize for getting their grown-ups growing.
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03/08/2011 - The Big Tree Plant is a campaign to encourage people and communities to plant more trees in England's towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
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17/06/2011 - Tree Watch - have you adopted your tree yet?
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07/06/2011 - Christ Church CE Primary School are the lucky recipients of the generous donation from M&G Investments.
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06/06/2011 - RSPB's Make your nature count. A one-hour survey of the nature in your school garden.
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02/06/2011 - RHS Chelsea Miracle Gro competition - find out how one of our registered schools got on.
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24/05/2011 - RHS Interactive Map Your school may get an email from an individual expressing their interest in getting involved with your school garden following a visit to this year's Chelsea Flower Show. To find out more, click here.

01/06/2011 - An update from Potato Council's Grow Your Own Potatoes project.
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26/05/2011 - Click here to join The Co-operative Green Schools Revolution.

24/05/2011 - Chanel 4 Battlefront are looking for a bunch of dedicated 14 –22 year olds who want to put their heart and soul into running a campaign.
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01/05/11 - The Campaign for School Gardening Alan Titchmarsh Award has now launched for 2011.
The prize of £250 worth of school gardening vouchers will be awarded to the first 200 schools to submit successful level 3 or 4 evidence.
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18/04/2011 - People’s Trust for Endangered Species are raising awareness of the plight of the stag beetle.
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15/04/2011 - British Wildlife Photography Awards
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11/04/2011 - Beetle hunters needed!
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28/03/2011 - 'Thinking outside the classroom' - free CPD for KS3.
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25/03/2011 - RHS Great Veg Challenge
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09/02/2011 - Bake Your Lawn.
Click here for more information or see right-hand side panel for the teachers pack.

 

16/05/2011 - Food for Life Partnership - Roast Dinner Day 2011. Take Part now.
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01/03/2011 - RSPB - Big Garden Birdwatch
The results are in
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20/01/2011 - The Association for Science Education Outdoor Science Working Group’s (OSWG) report, entitled Outdoor Science, sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation, was released on January 19, 2011. Please click here to read the report. Please click here for more information.

 

09/12/10 - The Tomato Zone is a free interactive resource for children aged 5-16+.
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02/12/10 - Campaign for School Gardening receives a very generous donation!
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23/11/10 - The RHS SEN Schools Project Report 2009-2010 highlights many of the benefits that gardening can bring to SEN pupils.
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15/11/10 - School to School Visits aim to encourage schools that have leading practice to open their doors to other schools.
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12/11/10 - A new report states every school should be a food growing school.
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03/11/10 - Hampton Court Palace Flower Show Scarecrow Competition 2011
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03/11/10 - Carrot Trial - the results!
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02/11/10 - Free tools, seeds and more!
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06/10/10 - Free trees for schools from the Woodland Trust
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06/10/10 - Grow your own potatoes - free kit
Registrations are closed for 2011, but register now for 2012.
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22/09/10 - Forest Schools - new courses and training sessions for 2011
The course diary can be viewed by clicking here. To avoid disappointment book up early! 

22/09/10 - News from OZ
Berwick Fields Primary School is located in Melbourne and are searching for a school to partner with so the children can write letters, emails and share photos and compare such things as rainfall, climate and growth in the garden.
Interested? Read More

14/09/10 - RHS Campaign for School Gardening is now on Twitter and Facebook! 
Why not check us out on Facebook and join in debates or follows our regular tweets on what to do in your school garden on Twitter?
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03/09/10 - Gardening for Special Educational Needs (SEN) - what's new this September?
The RHS has just completed a one year project in six schools working with SEN pupils. From September 2010, we are developing this work further with two new projects.
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02/09/10 - New qualifications from the RHS
From this September anyone who is new to gardening or wanting to gain additional knowledge and skills will be able to study for a new range of qualifications from the RHS.
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02/08/10 - Free solar panels for the nation's schools
British Gas has unveiled an unprecedented £15 million investment in solar technology for the nation's schools. The company will donate and install solar panels - worth up to £40,000 - in up to 750 schools in the UK.
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29/07/10 - Growing Gardens Competition Day
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins creates a dream school garden for Lincolnshire pupils.
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13/07/10 - Shakespeare’s Comedies Scarecrow Competition Winners 2010
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28/06/10 - New RHS report
Report says school gardening boosts child development; teaches life skills and makes kids healthier and happier.
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08/06/10 - Food Waste just got Interesting
For those of you who would like a taste of Freedom at your school, festival, event or venue...
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20/05/10 - UK Ladybird Survey take part now
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21/04/10 - Thompson & Morgan sponsor RHS Campaign for School Gardening with 50,000 packets of seed and £10,000 of vouchers.
On successful submission of your level 3 evidence you will recieve £50 worth of vouchers for seeds from T&M.
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15/03/10 - The first 250 schools to join The Conservation Foundation’s Great British Elm Experiment will receive a special tree for Spring
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18/02/10 - Become part of Foodshare’s exciting new Growing to Give project for schools.
Have you thought about donating your school-grown produce to a local charity? Foodshare.co.uk will show you how.
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10/02/10 - Schools Global Gardens Network
Bringing the global dimension into the outdoor classroom.
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20/01/10 - The world is changing; are we getting more or less sustainable?
Explore local trees and be part of European scientific research project discovering our impacts on the planet with BEAGLE.
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25/11/09 - Waitrose's giving initiative, Community Matters.

Each trading month, Waitrose shops will have £1,000 to divide between three local organisations. Contact your local branch of Waitrose for more details.
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To get your own news posted here, contact us schoolgardening@rhs.org.uk