Welcome to the Teacher's Centre!

There's more to potatoes than meets the eye!

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It's FREE to take part and you will recieve a fabulous growing kit including seed potatoes and other goodies! Also, extensive classroom resources linked to the formal Curriculum, competitions and regional prizes!

Potatoes for Schools offers a valuable learning experience where you can find out where potatoes come from, how they grow, what you can do with them and how they can make primary learning an exciting experience.

Get some real hands-on experience by taking part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project. There are 12 000 free growing kits available for primary schools, containing Vales Emerald and Rocket seed potatoes as well as other goodies and the chance to win prizes if you want to compete to grow the heaviest weight of potatoes. This year 10,000 primary schools took part so make sure you register now for 2009. The registration deadline is 6th February 2009.

The teacher’s centre includes lesson ideas to support the children’s activities; grow it, cook it, play it and colour it. There is also a whole range of worksheets available which cover science and other areas of the curriculum. The image library has sequences of images that can be used as part of a wide range of activities.

How about actually going to see where potatoes grow? The farm visit section contains advice and a farm database