SHE Grows School Competition
Design it. Plant it. Care for it. Grow with it.
A competition inviting students to create green spaces of reflection at their own school — and to say, in their own words, what caring for their living environment means.
Opens February 2027
Participate 2027
Entries for the next round open in February 2027. Register your school now and we will send the brief, the planting guide and the key dates as soon as they are set.
- Who can enter
- Any school in a participating province
- Entries open
- February 2027
- Plants and trees
- Supplied
- Cost to the school
- None
56
Schools reached
560
Students engaged
1,050
Trees planted
2025–26
First two years
How it works
In 2025, we introduced the She Evolves School Competition, which invites students to create green spaces of reflection and explain, in their own words, what caring for their living environment means for their school and community.
Plants and trees are supplied by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment and Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo.
01
Design it
Students plan a green space of reflection somewhere on the school grounds.
02
Plant it
Trees and plants are supplied; the students do the planting themselves.
03
Care for it
The school takes responsibility for watering and keeping the space alive.
04
Grow with it
Students write what caring for their living environment means for their school and community. Those words are the entry.
Past winners
2025 and 2026 rounds
No winners published yet.
Photos of the competition
Sponsor a school
R800 puts a writing workshop and a green space into one school.