Arbor Day

We celebrate arbor day every year at Glenridge. We have ever since actively signing up to be an eco school. Since then we have participated in a few arbor day events but our favourite thing to do is to walk around our school and get familiar with the trees in our playground. 

Luckily for us we have had a dad, Jan, around for the last 4 years who is very knowledgable about trees and is very giving of his time so once a year he comes to our school and patiently leads our children around the grounds explain and answering all questions. 

We are fortunate that the founding school members saw fit to plant a lot of indigenous trees around so we have a rich source of material to chat about. 

Jan tells the children little stories about where the trees got their name and what medicinal uses they have or which trees are preferred by the birds for nesting.