Boynton Primary School

Our Royal Horticultural Society Gardening Awards

Five easy steps... 

The RHS Campaign for School Gardening encourages and supports schools and groups to develop and actively use a garden.

Whether you're starting out in your garden or developing an existing area, the School Gardening Awards can help!

Our five-level rewards scheme provides achievable goals which will help you turn your garden into a valuable learning resource.

Each level is easy to achieve by submitting a few words and photos via our website. Once completed, you'll receive a certificate and reward worth up to £200! 

The scheme is accessible to all ages and abilities, urban and rural areas, and is open to all schools, community groups and educational groups in the UK

We are proud to have been awarded our Level 1 Award and we are about to submit our evidence for Level 2.

For Level 1 we:

Achievement checklist

To achieve this level, you should be able 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

For Level 2 we:

Achievement checklist

To achieve this level, you should 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

Mr Berriman came to help us plant vegetables, fruit and flowers. We discussed where to plant to enable the plants to grow well, we used a range of tools and and used a range of gardening terms. We used gardening tools and then prepared the soil, sowed, planted and then watered our plants in.