Become a young tree champion!
Apply to the Tree Council for a fantastic opportunity and resources to help tackle the climate and nature crises by delivering a Young Tree Champion project in your school. Watch a video to hear about the experiences of some Scottish pupils and teachers. Deadline for applications is Thursday 3 February 2022.
What’s special about the Holly tree?
The Forest School Association has re-shared information on this special evergreen tree, in time for the festive season.
Biodiversity & Climate Change: new education resources added
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority has added three new education case studies to the Biodiversity and Climate Change Education pack. The three new resources are focused on Trees and Woodlands, Water Bodies and the National Park’s Mission Zero journey to Net Zero.
Tell your story in nature competition!
The Tree Council along with The Week Junior Science+Nature have launched an exciting new writing competition, open to all children in the UK aged between 8 and 15. Your story can be a poem or a piece of prose and can be fiction or non-fiction. Closing date 25th November.
Free trees
The I Dig Trees campaign from TCV and OVO Energy is providing 600,000 free trees to community groups and organisations across England, Wales and Scotland. Packs are available of 50 trees, including oak, birch and rowan. Maximum 19 packs per application. Trees can be ordered for delivery up to the end of March, but are going fast!
Force for nature – one tree
The Tree Council share this inspiring video as part of their message to COP26. In another video, discover how to grow your own tree from seed.
Supporting the curriculum and nature through planting trees
East Ayrshire Learning Outdoors Support Team (LOST) share a lesson grid on Tree Planting and Tree Care. This supports Curricular Area: Sciences, Biodiversity and Interdependence. Find this and other resources in Issue 41 of the LOST newsletter.
Creating the Glasgow Children’s Woodland – a short film
Watch this short documentary film by The Lost Woods, telling the story of the creation of the Glasgow Children’s Woodland. This is a legacy project to the COP26 Climate Conference. It’s a heart-warming story about hope and how a local Glasgow group took on an ambitious idea of reaching out [...]
