Today, Lewis, Catriona, Charlotte and Danielle went to Frank Nicols garden centre. The centre have taken very good care of the cabbages all summer and we would like to thank them for hosting our competition. 
We measured the height of all the cabbages (though it was obvious from the start that no.2 was the tallest!) Remember, they were sown by a selection of people from school who paid £1 towards our Malawi fund. No 2 was 97cm and grew from the seed sown by our very own Mr MacFarlane! Very suspicious!! We think he might have been sneaking in to feed it or even sing to it over the summer!! 
To find a winner - the person who guessed the tallest cabbage - we put the names of everyone who guessed no.2 into a pot and Danielle pulled one out. It was Josh Fraser, a second year pupil at the Academy - who wins the £20 voucher.
Afterwards, we loaded all dozen cabbages into Miss Swallow's trailer to take back to school.
After a quick lunch in the shed, Danielle transports some of the plants into the garden.
Grigor and Connorhan came to help carry them too. The one we are carrying here is the no.2 winner!! The competition has raised £70 which will go to the school's Malawi appeal. At a cost of £6.15 per child, our donation will feed eleven children for a whole year!For anyone who is interested, the heights of the other cabbages were as follows:
1) 60cm 3) 66cm 4) 32cm (poor thing!) 5) 35cm (another small one)
6) 62cm 7) 52cm 8) 59cm 9) 50cm
10) 75cm 11) 69cm 12) 50cm
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