How Grow to School can help your school deliver the ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ White Paper

The new Every Child Achieving and Thriving White Paper expects all schools to provide a broad, knowledge rich curriculum with a core enrichment entitlement, including nature, outdoor and adventure learning. It prioritises inclusive mainstream education, early intervention and adaptive teaching, alongside effective monitoring of engagement, improved attendance, and stronger parent communication and involvement.

What Grow to School offers:

• Year long food growing and outdoor learning programmes
• Curriculum development support
• Outdoor environment consultation and planning
• Teacher training, CPD and coaching
• Family and community programmes
• Strategic advisory support aligned with the White Paper
   

Grow to School is a practical partner for curriculum breadth, inclusion and community connected learning. Our mapped outdoor and nature based programmes link to the national curriculum and build STEM, literacy, numeracy, problem solving and critical thinking through hands on, real world learning.

Our enrichment offer includes gardening, food growing, outdoor creativity, nature exploration and environmental engagement, with clear progression and demonstrable impact for Ofsted and governors. Using Grow to School resources helps create a balanced curriculum that strengthens engagement.

Grow to School Programmes:

• The Growbag Early Years – outdoor activities and growing for young learners.
• The Growbag Mini – ideal for small spaces or schools starting out.
• The Growbag Max – our full food growing and outdoor learning programme.
• Each includes print and digital resources plus high quality plants and seeds for a full year of growing.
   

Grow to School also provides nature based activities that support SEND, SEMH, sensory needs, emotional regulation and communication, helping schools create inclusive outdoor spaces aligned with Individual Support Plans (ISPs).

Outdoor learning increases motivation, attendance and readiness to learn, particularly for anxious learners, persistent absentees and pupils disengaged from classroom based learning. Our approach creates calm, predictable routines that build confidence and belonging, leading to improved attendance and reduced disengagement.

Pupils take harvests home, extending sustainability and healthy eating into families and the wider community. In West Yorkshire, we also offer family workshops in cooking, nature and creative outdoor activities, successfully engaging even “hard to reach” families.

We provide in school programmes and practical training in outdoor pedagogy, inclusive teaching and positive behaviour approaches, alongside curriculum design, mentoring and coaching. (Currently in-school support is only available in West Yorkshire and surrounding areas.)

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