Children at Sacred Heart RC Primary School always look forward to Friday afternoons. Not because it is the end of the school week, but because the whole afternoon is devoted to the school’s innovative Food and Farming project.
All 300 pupils at the primary school in Gorton, four miles from Manchester’s city centre, take part in the programme. One week they might be planting carrot seeds or sowing runner beans in the Parish Gardens, a communal garden a short walk from the school. Another week they might be using the food they have grown to make nourishing soups and stews.
The project started in 2014, when this inner-city school in a disadvantaged area miles away from the countryside decided to put food and farming at the heart of its curriculum. At the start the programme only involved the year 4 children but it proved so successful that the school opened it up to every year group.
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