To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, our students have been keen to plant more trees on the Park as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy. Following the initial suggestion, plans were soon laid down to decide which saplings would most benefit our biodiversity. In Collect, students in each year group took to the floor to advocate their choice of tree, having researched their carbon capture and environmental values.
After much debate, the final selections were an English elm for each of Years 7, 9 and 10, three quaking aspen for Year 8, silver maples for Year 11 and the Lower Sixth and a giant redwood for the Upper Sixth. A bonus Oak sapling was planted by brothers, Tom and Jack, grown from an acorn planted by Tom when he was just eight!
The School were overwhelmed with the generosity of the community who immediately got behind the sustainability initiative and donated £775 to make the cause possible.
On Wednesday 23rd March, the year groups’ trees were officially planted by members of Years 7 to the Upper Sixth. Ably assisted by Estates Manager, Tom Sheldon, Head, Matthew Judd, also got stuck in with the shovel, planting his tree for the Jubilee and marking the year of COP26 on the Park. Sustainability Champion, Oliver Staines, secured the roots of the new copper beech with a few final spadefuls of earth.
Additional saplings will be planted around the Park and a commemorative map will record which trees are planted.
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