Small school has big hopes of winning cash for its garden
Jul 7 2008 by Liz Hands, The Journal
GREEN-fingered pupils at a Northumberland School may soon have the chance to get back to grass roots if they win The Journal’s Tokens for Schools competition.
Only 15 pupils attend Linton First School in Morpeth, Northumberland, and with the help of their teachers they are hoping to improve their overgrown quadrangle garden.
As part of their curriculum, the pupils maintain the garden but recently it has become a little worse for wear. With a share of the £15,000 that is on offer the garden would be given a well-deserved face-lift.
Over 50 schools are participating in the competition, run in association with Barclays, in which four prizes can be won in each of the three categories – primary and first schools; secondary, middle and high schools and special needs schools.
The winners will receive £2,500 for first prize and £1,500 for second prize. A sum of £500 will be awarded to schools coming in third and fourth place in each of the sections.
Angela Markham-Lee, administration officer at Linton First School, said: “All the parents are helping by collecting as many tokens as they can and we even have a pot in the little village shop where the villagers are putting all of the tokens.”
Tokens can be collected in The Journal every day until Friday and bonus tokens are being printed tomorrow.
