Snaresbrook Primary School

In our Outdoor learning we have been busy over the past years learning about sowing, watering, weeding, caring for, harvesting and preparing vegetables for eating (we made a yummy soup last term from our vegetables). We have also worked towards achieving our Royal Horticultural Society School Gardens awards, and we recently received the very excellent news that we had achieved level 5, the highest RHS School Gardens Award! We are now an official RHS Five Star Gardening School. It goes without saying how proud the pupils were and how much they love working in the edible playground.

Snaresbrook Primary School achieved 1st prize again in the annual Redbridge in Bloom competition. This year the theme and inspiration was set around the Queen, who became the  first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service. The local authority were encouraging residents, businesses and schools to get involved in their amateur gardening competition by creating a garden fit for the Queen!

well done to the children and Mrs Clifton for their hard work in creating such a wonderful edible playground. We cannot wait to see it develop even more this year. 

In our Outdoor and Woodland Learning this term we are learning about where our food comes from. We have been harvesting the vegetables that have grown in our Edible Playground over the summer and have used the parsnips, leeks and onions to make a delicious vegetable soup. The children dug up, cleaned, peeled and chopped the vegetables. They then used our new mobile kitchen to cook the vegetables and make a lovely nutritious soup. 

The children really enjoyed eating the soup at the end of the lesson!

Snaresbrook Primary School achieved 1st prize at the annual Redbridge In Bloom competition. Thank you to Trees For Cities for working with us to create the Edible Playground. Thank you too to Ms Clifton and all of the parents and children for tending the garden before and after school. It was truly a team effort !

The RHS ran a Monster Pumpkins competition whereby  250 schools nationwide were given 2 pumpkin seeds in order to try and grow an enormous pumpkin. Both of our seeds germinated and grew quite large pumpkins! Our final estimated weight was 70kg, which meant we came 4th in the competition.  Well done to all the children who tended and watered the pumpkin during their lunchtimes and playtimes - your hard work produced excellent results!

We are very excited to announce that we have achieved the Level 2 Royal Horticultural Society Award. This is a huge achievement. In order to achieve this level, we needed to be able to answer 'yes' to the following statements: 

• We have started to grow some plants
• We are asking our students what they want to grow
• We can use basic gardening terms
• We can use hand tools safely
• We have the skills to prepare the soil, sow, plant and water 

Well done everyone, keep growing!

Snaresbrook Primary School has been awarded Level 1 of the Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Awards. To achieve this level, we had to answer 'yes' to the following statements: 

• We understand the benefits of gardening to children and young people
• A person has been chosen to lead the gardening project/activity
• An area has been identified for a gardening project/activity
• We have planned the area and are looking at resources we might need
• We understand hazards in the garden 

Well done to Mrs Clifton and all the children on this special award. 

Snaresbrook Primary School applied for the Woodland Trust Green Trees Award. A school is rewarded for taking part in environmental projects such as tree planting and recycling, and for activities such as organising assemblies to raise awareness, and visiting woods. We collected points for each activity, and we are very proud to announce that we have progressed to Gold.