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St Nicholas-at-Wade CE Primary School
Pictures of the St Nicholas at Wade school children for the Tesco 'Adoptafield' 2002 project - with the potato planting at the school in tyres and at the first field visit this year to a local farmer planting potatoes. The school children will go and see harvesting and also packing in the pack house. School Packhouse Visit
Growing Competition
St. Nicholas at Wade primary school, digging their home grown potatoes, the 3 teams, Maris Piper, Desiree and King Edwards were in competition to grow the most, the largest and the ugliest potato. Other Schools which are taking part in these projects are as follows: School Project – pictures of this season's children – growing and learning about potato production, with a wide range of activities. Two local schools are taking part in this year's "Potatoes in the Playground " project. For the second consecutive year Mount Nod Primary School and Three Spires, a special needs school taking part for the first time, will be following the potato from planting to Tesco Supermarket Shelf. Both of these Midlands Schools have already planted their potatoes into modified dustbins. Visits to a local potato grower to watch the planting, growing and harvesting of his early potato crop are also planned for this year. The photographs are of last year's project with the children from Mount Nod Primary School. Potatoes in the Playground
Pictures of this season's children - growing and learning about potato production. Despite the downpour of rain earlier in July, Three Spires School, a special needs school based in Coventry visited a local potato grower for an enjoyable farm visit. The class of 8 to 9 year olds saw the variety Lady Felicia being grown on a larger scale. The children had great fun in digging up several potato plants and comparing the potatoes in the field to their potato crop growing in modified dustbins at their school. They took a bag of their freshly dug potatoes back to school to cook up that afternoon. The class also had the opportunity of seeing farm animals such as sheep, cows and ducks as well as other agricultural crops and machinery.
A few days before the end of the school Summer Term both Three Spires School and Mount Nod Primary School "harvested" their crop of potatoes that they had been growing in modified dustbins since March in their school playground. Each class from both schools had grown three different varieties, Lady Felicia, Desiree and King Edwards. The Lady Felicia team from Three Spires school won the trophy which was awarded to the team that produced the best overall crop out of both primary schools. |
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