Hillside Gardening Course – starts January 2012

Hillside Primary school have accessed funding from Honley Show Community Projects to run a fruit and vegetable Gardening course. The course will include: Practical sessions to learn the basics of vegetable growing. Visits to local farms. Involvement in school growing events. Access to equipment to grow plants at home. Personalised growing advice for your garden. [...]

Hillside’s Harvest Fair 2011

Everyone is welcome to come along to Hillside Primary’s Harvest Fair on Friday 14th October from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Come along to look round the school, enjoy tea and cake, join in the games, or do some bulb planting. The school are keen to involve all the community in this event, so all the exhibitions [...]

Vegetable planters for Newsome village

Growing Newsome are hoping to have some vegetable planters in Newsome village centre. The children from Hillside Primary would like to look after the plants, with help from Active Social Care. We’re looking for sources of funding to get the project started, and we’re talking to local businesses and others about where we might be [...]

Hillside Primary Harvest Fair

Everyone is welcome to come along to Hillside’s Harvest Show on Thursday 23rd September.

Newsome’s young food growers on BBC Look North

Hillside Primary have got off to a fantastic start with their food growing in a day of special activities filmed for BBC Look North.

Sharing our success at the Mayor’s Local Food Awards

Growing Newsome wins the Community Award at the first ever Mayor’s Local Food Awards 2009 – 2010.

Get your grown-ups growing

We ran two ‘Get your grown-ups growing” events at the old Stile Common schools.