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.

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Read the full case study

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Register now for GYOP 2013. Kits are limited so don't delay!

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Example Grow Your Own Potatoes kit
Growing potatoes

Grow

Growing potatoes is fun and your school can even cook and eat the end results!

Planting potatoes
Children with potatoes for competition

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.

Beneath the Soil Project!

Why not try the Beneath the Soil project with your class and watch their faces as they see the potatoes grow!

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.

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