Get Your Grown-Ups Growing

The RHS launched its Get Your Grown-ups Growing Day at the beginning of October with the help of Neasden Primary School in Hull, Blue Peter Gardener, Chris Collins and RHS Regional Advisor, John Hickling. This month-long drive to get parents and the wider community to support school gardening forms the next stage of our Campaign for School Gardening. Piloted in Yorkshire, 76 schools have registered to take part so far, and so off the back of this success, plans are underway to roll this initiative out nationwide next year.

If you’re a Yorkshire school you can still register for Get Your Grown-ups Growing Day, please see below.

Launch of GYGUG at Neasden School Photographer: Kippa Matthews

What is going on?
We would like to invite all schools in Yorkshire to get their Grown-ups Growing as part of our Campaign for School Gardening.

How to take part

1. Make sure you are registered to the Campaign.
2. Login to this website with your username.
3. Click on the 'Take part now' button at the bottom of this page.
4. You will receive a free resource pack complete with a how-to guide, posters, stickers and seeds.
5. Decide on a day in October or November that suits your school, and then invite your parents, friends and neighbours to come in and help you create and develop your school garden.
6. Host the day and have fun!
7. If holding your day before 10 November you can take part in the competition to win a new greenhouse (see details 'how to' below).
   

Grown-ups Gardening with School Children

When is this happening? 
The launch took place on 1st October 2009 at Neasden Primary School in Hull. Schools that register to take part, can choose any day in October or November that suits them best.

Win a greenhouse! 
Win a Hartley Botanic Greenhouse worth over £2000. All you have to do is hold your day before 10 November, take a photo of your Get Your Grown-up Growing day and send it to us by 16 November, along with a short explanation of what you did on your day.

Post: Get Your Grown-ups Growing Day’, Press Office, RHS, 80 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PE

Email: yorkshiregrown-ups@rhs.org.uk( please make sure your image is no larger than 1mb)

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Invite letter to Head Teachers download below. 

• Download Grown ups Growing - Letter to Head Teachers (242.1KB, .pdf)

For a list of T and C download below.

• Download Get your Grown ups Growing terms and Conditions (109.7KB, .pdf)

Are you a parent or other adult in the community?

If you are a parent, family friend or other adult then you can help your local school take part.

• Look at the 'Map of Schools' on this website to find local schools registered to the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. 
• Ask them if they have registered for the Get Your Grown-up Growing day.
• If not suggest they sign up.
• Offer your help.