School Vege Challenge - Springvale Garden Centre

Latest from the Vege Challenge:

Winners Announced!

June 23, 2022

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We have been absolutely thrilled with the engagement and participation of so many schools keen to teach their students gardening.

Overall Winner

Winner - Brunswick School

Runner Up - Whanganui Intermediate School

Best Looking Garden (Independent Judge from SGC)

Winner - Brunswick School

Second Equal - Whanganui City College
Second Equal - Rutherford Junior High

Most Innovative Garden (Independent Judge from SGC)
Helpful, practical & clever garden additions. Extending learnings from the garden and benefits wider school and community.

1st Equal - Whanganui Girls College
1st Equal - Brunswick School
1st Equal - Whanganui Intermediate School

2nd Equal - Whanganui City College
2nd Equal - Keith Street School
2nd Equal - Churton School

Carrot Growing (Independent Judge from SGC)
Winner - Whanganui Intermediate School

2nd Equal - Brunswick School
2nd Equal - Okoia School

Broccoli Growing (Independent Judge from SGC)

1st Equal Winner - Brunswick School
1st Equal Winner - Rutherford Junior High
1st Equal Winner - Whanganui City College
1st Equal Winner - Whanganui Girls College
1st Equal Winner - Whanganui Intermediate School

Peoples Choice Award
The public voted for their favourite garden based on anonymous, numbered photos of each school's garden.

Winner - Brunswick School

Runner Up - Kai Iwi School

Participating Schools for 2022

Click on the summaries below to see the latest photos and info for each school participating in the School Vege Challenge 2022.

Whanganui City College

Our vision is to get our students involved to gain life skills and learn how to grow their own food.

Upokongaro School

We are a small school with loads of enthusiasm. Our students love getting outdoors, and the School Vege Challenge will be a great way to do this.

Whanganui Girls College

The School Vege Challenge gives us a perfect opportunity for the students who are interested in gardening, to learn and develop more of their skills.

Keith Street School

Growing our own veges on site will support our tamariki to gain greater understanding of how healthy food is grown.

Rutherford Junior High

We already know how to grow plants, we’re going to win!

Brunswick School

We are excited to participate in the School Vege Challenge as a motivator to get our students into the vege garden.

Kai Iwi School

Our school vision is to grow the biggest and healthiest fruit and vegetables by working together.

Tawhero School

Vegetables are yum! We are going to win!

Aranui School

We loved participating in the School Vege Challenge in 2021 and the children have asked to do it again this year.

Te Kura o Kokohuia

The Castlecliff area can be difficult with the sand and strong winds but we are super excited to get our garden started.

Whanganui Intermediate School

We are planning a new school & community garden for educational and therapeutic use. We are starting small but dreaming big!

Carlton School

Our kura love gardening and learning new skills along the way, they all have their own take on gardening and all have individual strengths.

Whanganui Collegiate School

The students of Whanganui Collegiate School are looking forward to the School Vege Challenge.

Churton School

We participated in the 2021 School Vege Challenge and our environment team really engaged in the process.

Okoia School

Our students are already brimming with great questions like, “How can we tell if it’s a slug or caterpillar eating the plants?”

Durie Hill School

We don’t yet have a school vege garden at Durie Hill School so this is a great opportunity for us to get started.

Older Vege Challenge News:

Mid-Contest Check In

On the last week of Term 1 (early April 2022) we visited the participating schools and checked in on their gardening progress. In many instances we were able to talk to some of the gardening team whose effort is creating the results in each garden. Check in on each of the schools below to see the latest pics and write

Vege Challenge Kits Delivered

February 17, 2022

The last week has been super-busy as we’ve been dropping off starter kits to our 16 local Whanganui Schools for the 2022 School Vege Challenge. We could only fit starter kits for half of the schools in the van, so we did this twice over a few days! Along with our key partner and sponsor, NZME (Whanganui Chronicle), we would

2022 School Vege Challenge Getting Going

February 2, 2022

We are busy getting sorted for the School Vege Challenge which is kicking off next week with the delivery of each school’s free starter kit. This is a major event for us and a way for us to support and give back to the amazing community of Whanganui. Entries closed on Monday 31st January and we are excited to have

2022 School Vege Challenge Registrations Open

December 6, 2021

We learned a lot from running the first edition of the Vege Challenge in 2021 and have made some improvements to the structure of the competition and the criteria for judging.

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