Together with Juliette Douglas and Louise Blythe they have set up a gardening club at the school which has been entered for our Team Effort award.

All the pupils take it in turns, on a three-week rotation in small groups of 14, to get involved in the Wednesday morning club.

The school has a large garden area with raised borders containing perennials and annuals which the children have all had a hand in planting, plus with a vegetable garden and greenhouse donated to them in which they grow tomatoes and salad plants.

Rebecca said: "This year has not been so good because if the weather is bad the children cannot go out.

"The idea is to grow so much that all the children have the chance to taste different varieties of fruit and vegetables and see how good they taste when they have just been picked and are fresh.

"The children use what they have grown in the garden to make something with, like soup which they have at playtime. Recently they tried potatoes with herbs and butter.

"This encourages the children to want to grow something at home because they know how easy it is to grow fresh vegetables and fruit and how tasty they are."

Plants are also produced from cuttings which the children choose from plants in the school grounds. They watch them grow over the weeks and see the roots flourishing.

The school had a plant sale in the summer and the children got very involved with it and sold plants they had grown themselves. Together with cakes and book stalls a grand total of £1,235 was raised.