Mother Nature turned on the weather for the St Andrew’s Anglican College students as they planted over 300 trees on Friday.
The planting day was part of National Tree Day activities with all 585 primary school students plating a tree with the help of the school’s sustainability team, made up from staff and senior students.
The 330 trees planted on Friday will act as an informal offset against the carbon emissions produced by the Year 6 cohort’s trip to Canberra in September for studies of the government and national history.
Event organiser Sue Bambling said it was important to teach children to appreciate nature at a very young age.
“National Tree Day is a perfect opportunity for children to play a hands-on role in protecting the environment,” she said.
Celebrating National Tree Day is part of the college’s overall environmental strategy that also includes the development of a community sustainable garden, environmental education, energy efficiency and beach clean-up activities to reduce the amount of plastic entering the ocean.
National Tree Day was established by Planet Ark in 1996.
It is now Australia’s biggest community tree-planting and nature care event and since inception more than 2.8 million people have planted 20 million seedlings across the country.
