Students from St Margaret’s School for Girls took to the hills to help to reverse some of the devastation caused by Storm Arwen by restoring a section of woodland which suffered extensive damage during November 2021.
Dozens of families from St Margaret’s School for Girls, with the help of teachers and friends, planted over 400 tree saplings provided by the Woodland Trust, the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, at Whitehill Woods between Blairdaff and the Bennachie Centre.
Abby Miller, Head of Biology and Sustainability, organised the event alongside former St Margaret’s art teacher Jane Richardson. Mrs Miller emphasised the connection to nature that has been formed from the hugely successful tree-planting project:
“This initiative has helped our students connect with nature and improve our local environment… Our goal is to facilitate Learning for Sustainability in the curriculum at every level, and we have woven aspects of this project into many subjects, our IIS maths students were even helping to calculate the spacing required for best planting conditions!”
We hope this to be the first of many initiatives that our school is a part of. Huge thanks to Jane Richardson, Abby Miller, and The Woodland Trust for their efforts in organising this momentous event.