Small, But Growing Beautifully

Winmarleigh School is one of the tiniest in the county, but all the pupils helped create an award-winning garden.

- Paul Mackenzie

ONE of Lancashire’s smallest schools has triumphed in our annual hunt for the pupils with the greenest fingers. There are only 26 children on the register at Winmarleigh School but they were all involved in creating a winning garden and they can now look forward to another year of happy gardening, after they were presented with the £750 prize.

Held in collaboration with multi-award winning gardener, John Foley of Holden Clough Garden Centre in Bolton-by-Bowland, our School Garden of the Year competition is aimed at encouraging youngsters to develop a passion for plants and to sow the seed for a life-time’s love of gardens and growing.

Teacher Sarah Shaw, who read about the competition in Lancashire Life, said: ‘When Ofsted came last May, they picked us up on working on the outdoor area so we thought we’d get the whole school involved.