Welcome to Grow Your Own Potatoes
A project that teaches primary school children about potatoes. With almost 1 million primary school children benefiting from this classroom experience linked to the UK curricula, children learn how potatoes grow and how they fit in to a healthy balanced diet. All you have to do is register your school to receive a FREE potato growing kit, use the supporting lesson plans and worksheets and for a chance to win fabulous prizes for your school, enter the competition once you have harvested.
Case studies
2010 Winners - Northwood Primary School
The winners of GYOP 2010 were Northwood Primary School on the Isle of Wight who grew an amazing 5400g of Rocket potatoes from 3 seeds.
Register
Register now for GYOP 2013. Kits are limited so don't delay!
Register for 2013
Grow
Growing potatoes is fun and your school can even cook and eat the end results!
Planting potatoes
Competition
This year we are giving away fabulous garden furniture as prizes for the winning schools so secure your growing kit now while stocks last and get ready to plant in March.
Win fantastic prizes in 2013!
Win fantastic prizes in 2013
Educational Resources
Download our free, curriculum-based resources for use in your classroom
How to be a winner
Why not try some of these tips from last year's winners?
St Dominic Savio School in Reading selected a child to be on 'frost watch' each night. They checked the temperature on the BBC weather site at the end of each day and then brought their potatoes indoors if there was a chance of frost – no wonder they were winners!
Read more tips from our winners
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Our Seed Suppliers
Why not have a play with the new Seed Supplier map and find out more about the company supplying the seed in your kit.
Also, use our School Search to see a list of the other schools in your area taking part.
Seed Supplier Map
Register NOW
Registrations for GYOP 2013 are now open and kits are going fast.
Don't miss out this year - Register NOW
NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL RESOURCES
Potato Council are excited to announce the launch of Cook Your Own Potatoes (cyop). A fantastic new website for KS3 the natural progression from growing in primary to cooking in secondary.