Pupils from Victoria Primary School in Carrickfergus have been busy planting more than 250 trees as part of the first stage of a Forest Schools development.
The project, funded through Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and the Woodland Trust, saw children take to the school field on Tuesday, March 18 to plant a mixture of native trees including rowan, Irish oak, and hazel.
The project, funded through Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and the Woodland Trust, saw children take to the school field on Tuesday, March 18 to plant a mixture of native trees including rowan, Irish oak, and hazel.
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00:00Hello, I'm Hannah Galbraith here and I'm a Primary 5 teacher here in Victoria Primary. I'm also the
00:04school's Eco Lead. It's been a wonderful day outside planting all our trees for our first
00:10stage of the Forest School development. The idea originally came from the children in our Youth
00:16Governors and our Eco Committee and we're really excited to get started. Chris Wood, the Woodland
00:21Officer from the Mini-Centrum Council sent out an email and that's just been the start of it so
00:26we're looking forward to developing it in the future. I'm Polly and I'm a P7 pupil at
00:31Victoria Primary School. Currently today we have been planting some trees in our field.
00:36It's a miniature kind of forest and we are going to do some outdoor learning in it.
00:43Hi, I'm Ben and I go to Victoria Primary School and I'm a P7. So as Holly was saying we were
00:51we were planting trees and making a forest in our school field. And did you enjoy being out
00:58planting today? Yeah, especially because we came out and helped Mrs. Borgiannott plant some trees.
01:07Linking with the Eco Schools and our Green Flag, it's really great that we're out here
01:11thinking about biodiversity. We're planting native trees today. We've got hazel, we've got oak and
01:16we've got willow and it's just bringing that into the council and for future years to come.