Assembly speech: why we should keep the school garden
Good morning, Principal, teachers and fellow students. I am standing here because a notice last week said our garden might make way for extra lockers. Lockers are useful. A patch of soil that we planted ourselves is useful in a different way. Last October, class 4B grew peas that actually climbed. Nobody will remember a metal door. They will remember the morning the first white flower opened and someone shouted down the corridor as if we had won a match. I am not asking the school to choose flowers over storage. Put the new lockers along the covered playground — there is a blank wall already. Keep the garden, even if it is small. When guests walk in on Open Day, they should see that this school grows more than grades. Thank you.