Let’s grow together…
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Supporting Schools to Grow Food & Skills
Sustainable Kirriemuir are passionate about ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to experience the satisfaction of growing their own produce. We want to enable this to happen at as early an age as possible, and to ensure children and their families learn about the importance of growing skills in relation to building resilience to climate change. We offer support to local schools to develop their school’s growing spaces. Support for staff to teach pupils the fundamental skills in growing food can also be provided. We always grow with nature and climate change in mind, and incorporate this into our work with schools. If you’re interested in what we can provide for your school through our Grow @ Home programme, please contact us.
Northmuir Primary School
Northmuir Primary School is home to a 16m x 6m poly-tunnel as well as outdoor beds and a fruit cage. The growing area is continually being developed, along with an orchard and wildlife pond. With biodiversity and habitat creation at the top of the school’s priorities, they’ve planted wildflowers and a hedge to create wildlife corridors.
We began supporting Northmuir Primary School, along with Southmuir Primary and Websters High Schools, in 2020 as part of our Nourish Project which ran until 2022. In 2021, the pupils and staff grew 200kg of edible produce, with the help of our Growing Leader, Emily. Read about their bumper potato harvest here.
In 2024 our Community Gardener, Linzi, began working with Northmuir Primary to revive their polytunnel and outdoor beds, and to support teachers in delivering outdoor learning and growing skills with the pupils.
An Update from Team SK…
I love working with the children at the Kirriemuir schools. They are always full of enthusiasm and willing to get stuck in!
School Growing
My class are enjoying the varied opportunities to get involved with the garden. They have enjoyed sawing trees, using drills, digging, planting, sowing and using wheelbarrows. They are learning lots!
School Garden
My son really enjoys ‘Welly Wednesday’. He is always keen to share with me what he’s been up to. It is fantastic that outdoor/environmental learning is seen as an important part of their education. Not only does it broaden his learning and application of knowledge gained in the classroom, it positively contributes to his health and well-being too.
Get in Touch
Together we can make good choices and live better, join Sustainable Kirriemuir!
If you would like to know more about what we are doing please get in touch. We are always looking for new members to join our organisation. If you have particular knowledge around climate change issues, or growing, making and mending skills you’d like to share, or just want to know more, we want to hear from you. Everyone is welcome, together we can make a difference.