REEP Garden Awards 2007 – 17/07/06

The REEP Garden Awards is a design competition open to all UK schools. Currently the awards are held every two years.

The Third Round Of Reep Awards!

The lastest round of the competition closed on June 5th 2007. Judging took place during the Summer term, and the presentation ceremony was held in September 2007.

Award Criteria

The 2007 round focused on three areas (See below for more details):

  1. Faith Gardens: Creating an Islamic garden
  2. Gardens and the arts: The use of sacred text in garden design
  3. Curriculum development: using an existing garden in the curriculum

Please send us your questions and queries so that we can monitor the progress of the applications and add a FAQ page to our site.

All entries must be submitted on CD/DVD or a website (which must be accessible to the REEP team).

Prizes

9 Awards of £1,000 and one top Award of £1,500 will be awarded by a panel of 5 expert judges. In principle, three Awards will be made in each category, but in exceptional circumstances the Judges may present more of the Awards to one category rather than another.

To register an interest, please send an email to gardenawards@reep.org giving:

  • The school’s name, address, phone & fax
  • Name of headteacher
  • Name of person to be contacted if this is not headteacher
  • An email address where we can contact you and send information

Additional Award in collaboration with ACE (Art and Christianity Enquiry)

The ACE REEP AWARD for an artist working with a secondary school to create a work of art enhancing a quiet space in the school. This could be indoor or outdoor as part of the built or natural environment.

Details of this award will appear on both the ACE and REEP sites next month.

Submitting Your Entry

All applications must be made electronically, either on DVD/CD or via a website. Within this restriction, applications may include any form of media, e.g. photographs, video, scanned pictures, text files, music, Powerpoint etc.

Fill out the 2007 entry form, which can be downloaded in Word doc, or RTF doc format. Please rename the file to include your school name, and email the completed document to us at: gardenawards@reep.org. (NB. Email attachments should be no more than 5Mb – larger documents should be sent by post)

Please send accompanying files and documents on DVD/CD to:
REEP, 17 Allan House, 55 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QX

We will send you an email receipt for your entry. If you haven’t heard from us within 10 days of posting, please contact us or call 077 66 565 470.

Extra Information

  1. Faith Gardens
    There are garden traditions in most of the world’s faiths. This year we are focusing on Islamic Gardens which always contain clearly defined symbolic features and which reflect some of the most ancient traditions of formal gardening. In the Autumn term an extensive web feature will help you with the design of such gardens and the thinking behind them.
    If you do not wish to make an Islamic garden, you can choose to make another type of faith garden, and the existing REEP ‘virtual gardens’ feature will help you with this but there will be no new faith material other than for Islamic gardens in this round.
  2. Gardens and The Arts
    This category encourages schools to use sacred text in their garden design. The text may be from any faith and in any art form.
  3. Curriculum Development
    This category is for schools which already have a garden and may have won an award in previous years. Is the garden just an attractive place or is it really used to promote children’s learning and personal development? Do you have evidence of how you use your garden as a teaching resource? Is the space itself a venue for contemplation, worship, drama or story telling? If so, how have you designed the garden so that it makes an impact on the people involved?