Throughout the year our Reception class grew a variety of fruit, vegatables and herbs.

Y10 CoPE Students created a market garden behind the Tecnology block. They have been involved in all stages of planning, designing and building the beds, fencing and greenhouse using all recycled materials. The greenhouse will eventually have walls made from recycled plastic bottles.

Watering the tomatoes

Checking out the final products.

Dylan looking very proud after the weigh in of the potatoes.

Dominic trying to find more potatoes.

With our potatoes and leeks.

Simonside Gardening Club is run by Mrs Wilson and Mrs Gibson on a Thursday lunchtime. We have a small group of dedicated volunteers who come along every week. We have planted and grown very successfully Potatoes, Leeks, Tomatoes, Herbs and Sunflowers. On Thursday 3rd July we harvested our Potatoes and Leeks. The children involved had a fantastic time and were thrilled to see the final result. The potatoes were weighed and we managed to grow 1kg in total (not bad for the first time !!)

Over thirty pupils entered our radish growing competition, but Charlie's SUPER RADISH weighing over 40g was four times heavier than the next person's radish.

Year 7 Business groups at BBEC have been taking part in a "Growing" project as part of Food and Farming Year, growing food plants and herbs to market and sell to the public. They have grown a variety of food plants and herbs. All profits will be given to SCOPE, the school's chosen charity for the year. At the end of the project, Form 7N were asked to research Food and Farming Year and produce a podcast. This piece of work by Kiran Chauhan, Andrew Jamieson, Dhaval Jasani and Syed Zaidi was agreed by the group to be one of the best.