All generations help brighten up grounds at prep school

16:25 12th October 2011

Greenhouse enthusiasts of all ages took to the garden to help brighten up the grounds of the Belmont Grosvenor School in North Yorkshire.

The school signed up for the Royal Horticultural Society's Get Your Grown-Ups Growing campaign, which aims to encourage gardening in schools as a means of helping children develop academic, practical and social skills.

Parents and grandparents turned out to help plant plenty of daffodil bulbs around the school grounds, which the school's Eco Club had decided needed brightening up.

"It was wonderful to see such teamwork and enthusiasm despite the hard ground that some groups faced," year one teacher Ann Harrison told Harrogate News.

After the bulbs had been planted, year six students organised tea and cakes for the volunteers to say thank you for helping them achieve the Belmont Grosvenor School Award.

The Chiltern Primary School in Hull has been named as a flagship for a national initiative trying to put gardening into the curriculum for children.