Green-fingered pupils at Georgetown Primary in Dumfries are to turn their winning design into a real Pocket Garden for a Keep Scotland Beautiful competition.
The P1-3 pupils have been invited by the environmental charity to built it for real for a national online showcase.
Support learning assistant, Louise Baxter, who has been working with the P1-3 pupils on the project, said: “It has been brilliant and they are really thrilled to be winners and now get the chance to create it at school. We are hoping to now start growing a lot of the plants from seed and gathering in the bits and pieces we need.”
Georgetown’s Pocket Garden is called A celebration of children’s rights and aims to show, in many ways, that respect for the environment is key for the future.
The plans include collecting rain water, making compost, reusing materials, and growing plants for pollinators and quick growing crops for healthy snacks for the young gardeners.
Pupils at Dalbeattie Primary and at Glenluce Nursery have also been selected and will now started creating their own gardens for the online showcase.
Dalbeattie’s will be a celebration of the coronation of King Charles III in the shape of St Edward’s Crown and Glenluce Nursery is creating a “Kindness Kingdom” Pocket Garden to mark the royal event.
Eve Keepax, of Keep Scotland Beautiful, said: “This year’s new theme of A Garden of Celebration has opened the door to an outpouring of ideas of what children want to celebrate and what they value.
“It is a reminder in difficult times that we still have many reasons to celebrate.”
