School children, from nursery up to secondary level show off creative flair, working as a team, with the satisfaction of seeing their creative wheelbarrow gardens on display being enjoyed by tens of thousands of visitors! All took place between Thursday 13th and Sunday 16th June 2024.

The competition was a simple, hands-on, fun and thoughtful gardening activity. We entered with our original, fun, engaging, colourful, and FANTASTIC WHEELBARROW creation...

The CHALLENGE was intriguing and difficult...months of planning, nurture, patience, and loving tender gardening care!

The concept for this year’s wheelbarrow competition was food and climate change. Schools were encouraged to think about the many different ways that climate and environmental changes are affecting food production (both globally and at local level); choosing an aspect that interested pupils and deciding how to interpret this in designing and planting a wheelbarrow to show how the particular problem might be reduced.

And...wait for it...

ST. BERNARD'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL WON the 2024 BBC WHEELBARROW growing COMPETITION!

UNBELIEVABLE achievement! 

Just over 12,000 public votes and WE WON!

Big thank you to the St. Bernard's WHEELBARROW GROWING TEAM - the St. Bernard's partnership of Parveen & McCarron Co Ltd - Green-Fingered and enthusiastically creating, designing, growing, and leading the Reception children in this AMAZING project. National and regional ACCLAIM!

AMAZING NEWS!