St Benedict learners care for the environment
To celebrate Arbor Week, St Benedict School learners planted 15 Warburgia (Pepper bark) trees on the school campus.
SEPTEMBER is Arbor Month and is celebrated annually in South Africa, encouraging all citizens to plant indigenous trees.
One of the central focuses at St Benedict School is to teach the children to care for their environment.
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On Friday, 4 September, the Grades R, 1, 3 and 5 learners helped to celebrate Arbor Week by planting 15 Warburgia (Pepper bark) trees on the school campus.
“These trees are endangered and were kindly donated by Simon Maphumulo who is affiliated to the Kloof Conservancy and works in their ‘Alien Busting’ project unit.
“The school is excited by the partnership with Simon and is hugely indebted to him as he guides them in their determination to improve the environment in and around the school,” said head of primary school, Gillian Rayner.
In response to an advert posted by the Kloof Conservancy in their “Donate and Plant Arbor Day” campaign, St Benedict School decided to support this venture and donated two trees.
One of the learners, Reia Govender in Grade 2, also donated another tree. A number of learners and teachers gathered at the Kloof Town Hall on Saturday, 5 September, and planted White Ironwood trees.
“The children were really excited by the prospect of watching their trees grow and perhaps even showing their grandchildren one day which tree they had planted. A wonderful imitative by the Kloof Conservancy team,” said Rayner.
