A small rural primary school has won the NPS Group sponsored 'Grow Up!' competition to encourage gardening in Devon primary schools. TV gardener Toby Buckland, presenter of BBC Gardener’s World, paid a flying visit to Landscove primary school, near Buckfastleigh, to tell the children the good news in person.
The 'Grow Up!' campaign was devised by NPS Group in Devon and Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, for primary schools to design their own sustainable garden. The four finalists were Landscove primary, which won the rural class, Sidbury primary school in Sidmouth, winners of the coastal section and Bradley Barton primary school in Newton Abbot and St. Sidwell’s in Exeter, who shared the urban category.
Toby who was one of the judges and lives in South Devon, helped select Landscove as the overall winners stating: “the overall quality of entries was very high, the Landscove School submission stood out in the end due to its obvious link between the children’s aspirations and the final design which captured them and turned it into a project that we can realise.”
The winning design will be entered into this year’s Devon County Show and will also be built at the school. The 'Grow Up!' campaign supports Devon County Council’s aspiration to make Devon the greenest county in Britain.
