PUPILS at Michael’s Primary and Nursery School in Kingsteignton have had a ‘tree-mendous’ time addressing the issues of climate change by planting saplings.
St Michael’s is a United Nations Rights Respecting School and has been awarded the Silver Medal for their work.
‘We started our Rights journey in May 2019 and achieved Silver in November 2020. We are now working towards Gold,’ said head of school Kate Arnold.
‘We have children who have volunteered from across the school to be our Rights Ambassadors, and it was their idea to address the major issue of climate change by planting trees.’
‘Our ambassadors wrote a letter to New Wood Trees in Stoke Gabriel and owner Philip Nieuwoudt got in touch straight away with his kind offer of 16 trees – one for each class,’ continued Hannah Murray, Year Four teacher and Right’s lead at St Michael’s.
‘Each class has been given a special tree and the children will be in charge of its well being whilst they are in that year group. This means they will get to know a new tree each year.’
The planting of the trees, a mix of field maple, silver porch and crab apple, has been staggered so that special safety bubbles are kept intact, and the site manager has assisted with digging the holes.
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