YOUNGSTERS from Birkwood Primary School received certificates for participating in the Chronicle’s gardening competition.

The kids at the Cudworth school have a wonderful relationship with gardening at a tender age thanks to an allotment on the school grounds which scores of them get involved with.

The Chronicle’s Ashley Ball, who oversaw the Barnsley’s Best Garden competition, visited the school this week and presented year six pupils James Stables, Harper Webb and Mollie Cunningham with certificates for making the final three in the community garden category.

The trio, alongside the school’s resident gardener Heather Greenwood, had shown Ashley around their allotment earlier in the summer and talked about their burgeoning love of learning outdoors.

Gardening books were also donated to the school’s library and the three kids were all given vouchers.

Ashley said: “James, Harper and Mollie were great hosts and were really knowledgeable about plants and what they had been growing.

“Birkwood’s initiative with gardening should be implemented at more schools as it clearly sets youngsters on a course of vocational learning which will only benefit them in the future.

“Hopefully all the children involved in the project at Birkwood will continue to garden throughout their lives.”