FREE ALL-IN-ONE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Get a free drop-down day about sustainability
Grow24 is a project-based competition that inspires students to connect with where their food comes from.
Join for 6 FREE video workshops and workbooks to help your students create sustainable projects.
🏆 Win a life-changing 5-day residential trip to a Farms for City Children farm worth £20,000+
Why does this matter? 🌎
Up to 41% of British students don't know that eggs come from chickens 🥚
Never before has the fate of our planet depended so heavily on the choices we make today. As educators, we have a critical role to play in equipping the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to cultivate a sustainable future. By knowing where their food comes from, students gain the power to make informed, healthier choices for themselves and the planet.
If your school is based outside of the UK, you can participate in the live celebration day. However, only British state school primary students can win the final prize.
A project-based competition for any curriculum, worldwide 🌎
Grow24 is a cross-curricular educational competition aimed at primary students, fostering their connection with nature and sustainability. Students will develop their skills across six video modules and learn about agriculture, nature, and food. In the end, they'll create a final project that could win them an exciting trip to a Farms for City Children farm.
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How to use it: Prepare your students for a sustainable future
This free programme is designed to be flexible and cross-curricular. It's all prepared for you, and you simply need to download and distribute the materials. Incorporate the lessons into a single drop-down day full of fun project-based learning, or embed them on a weekly basis!
Grow24 is a class-specific project, so it doesn't have to involve your entire school.
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Cultivate critical thinking
Students develop essential skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, preparing them to tackle real-life challenges.
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Inspire innovation
Grow24 ignites the spark of curiosity, unleashing the creativity and ingenuity of students as they design their own prototypes.
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Foster global citizenship
Encourage a global mindset by instilling a sense of responsibility for the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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Deepen understanding
Our immersive lessons foster a comprehensive understanding of sustainability, helping students to make informed decisions and take action.
Plug-and-play learning for Key Stages 1 & 2
Grow24 inspires the next generation to connect with where their food comes from and engage with nature and sustainability. Students will develop their skills across different experiences and learn about agriculture, nature, and food, through engaging learning and activities, building up to producing a final project which has the chance to win them a trip to the farm.
Key stage 1: Inventing for city-dwellers
Students will build up to coming up with their own original ideas to encourage urban dwellers to connect with the natural world.
👋 1. Welcome: Get excited about what’s to come and an introduction to 8billionideas and Farms For City Children.
🐣 2. Where Food Comes From: Animals: Understand animal products, where they come from, and how we can make sustainable choices.
🍅 3. Where Food Comes From: Plants: Let's demystify what fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains are, and how to choose wisely.
💚 4. Happy And Green: Explore how nature is essential to human happiness, and how we can ensure everyone has access to it.
💡 5. Let’s Create: Put your learning into creating an invention that helps city dwellers engage with the natural world.
👩🏽🏫 6. Showcase: Showcase your learning and your world-changing inventions for the chance to win a trip to the farm!
Key stage 2: Creating a sustainable farm
Students will design and build a prototype of a sustainable farm, using their new knowledge and recyclable materials.
👋 1. Welcome: Get excited about what's on the horizon as we introduce you to 8billionideas and Farms For City Children.
🧑🏻🌾 2. Beyond Old McDonald: Explore real-life agriculture. What are modern farmers like? Could they look like you? What jobs are involved?
🍽️ 3. Solve It: Farming To Feed: Engage with the problems of feeding everyone with farms and getting inspired about the solutions
🔬 4. Farms Of The Future: Dive into how modern farms look to the future with technology and sustainable inventions.
✏️ 5. Let’s Design: Sketch a plan for your sustainable farm. Take inspiration from all we’ve explored, and build your prototype.
🧑🏫 6. Showcase: Showcase your learning and our world-changing inventions for the chance to win a trip to the farm!
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Who is behind it?
Grow24 is a collaboration between the charity Farms for City Children and award-winning education company 8billionideas.
8billionideas is an EdTech and services company with the mission to give every student on the planet the skills and belief to change the world.
By partnering with schools, the company delivers virtual or hybrid lessons and has already worked with more than 500,000 students worldwide.
Farms for City Children is a charity, founded by Sir Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare. It exists to ensure that all children have meaningful access to nature through an immersive food, farming and outdoor learning residential on one of three heritage farms.
Proudly sponsored by Chatsworth Schools and 8billionideas
Big thank you to Chatsworth Schools for sponsoring Grow24 and helping bring this opportunity to thousands of students!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can complete this during one-drop down day or spread out during extra-curricular time.
There are six modules, each will have:
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Introduction to the module
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Learning objectives
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Video of the module delivered by our facilitators
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Activity sheets
