Bristol schools cash will help garden grow
St Anne's Park Primary would like to improve an allotment it has access to, so that pupils can grow fruit and vegetables to sell on a weekly stall to their parents.
The school in Lichfield Road has already entered this year's competition, which we run in conjunction with Barclays. This year, the Evening Post and Barclays are giving away £20,000 to eight schools.
The theme for the competition is giving children a better understanding of how money works and how best to use it, engaging young people in understanding how to manage money and become more financially savvy.
Sean Brice, a learning mentor at the school, said: "There is an area of land which is next to the school but is our caretaker's back garden. He has said we can use it.
"But it needs work before we can start growing anything in it. We want to engage children and parents in the work, and then the children will run a weekly stall selling their produce and other fair trade goods.
"Pupils will get the chance to learn how to handle money, buy and sell goods, advertise their business and reinvest money. They will keep records of money taken, costs of goods sold, and learning how to operate a bank account.
"As well as helping them with their awareness of money, it will provide the children with a focus – especially those with challenging behaviour."
To qualify for a share of the money, you must state how you will use the money to develop pupils in your school to become more financially capable.
For example, you could develop a resource aimed at helping children understand money, you could revamp a space and run a realistic school bank, or build a vegetable patch and sell the vegetables you have grown to people in your community, then put the money you make back into growing more vegetables.
To benefit as many schools as possible, we will be splitting the prize pot to make one £8,500 prize, one £4,500, two £2,500 and four prizes of £500.
To enter, contact Katherine Woolley at the Evening Post on 934 3034 or e-mail her at k.woolley@bepp.co.uk.
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