Byline: LINDA WHITWAM
In two sunny days, they transformed a neglected and unused corner of land at Netherthong Primary School into a sensory garden and large raised vegetable plot.The school has ambitious plans to grow a variety of vegetables and fruit, including strawberries, salads crops, beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, peppers and even squashes.* PLOTTING: Volunteers Tom Phillips and Wendy Herndlhofer with valley pupils Emily Horrocks, Louis Skinner, Max Bennett, Harry Currell and volunteer PJ Whiteley (AC070411Dneth-02)CAPTION(S):Now the 43 children who are members of the school's newly-formed gardening club can't wait to get cracking on their answer to Kew Gardens.It involves more than 750 Yorkshire Water employees creating sustainable, healthy gardens in 350 primary schools across the region.They have been learning about sowing and harvesting and have already planted seeds in pots ready to transfer them into the new beds.The aim is to educate children in an engaging way on a range of topical issues, including the environment, healthy eating, climate change and good citizenship.Teachers also intend to hold open-air lessons in a new pebbled area with an eight-seater picnic table.And its all thanks to Yorkshire Water and enthusiastic youngsters at a Huddersfield area school. A dozen of the water company employees volunteered to roll up their sleeves and get down to some hard work for a good cause.The project is part of Yorkshire Water's One Million Green Fingers volunteering initiative.Netherthong's class three teacher Jane Martin said: "It has been like a TV makeover.A NEW garden has sprouted in the Holme Valley.
* PLOTTING: Volunteers Tom Phillips and Wendy Herndlhofer with valley pupils Emily Horrocks, Louis Skinner, Max Bennett, Harry Currell and volunteer PJ Whiteley (AC070411Dneth-02)
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