Planting new trees – Fetlar Primary

Today with the help of one of our ferrymen Pete we learned life skills and planted out lots of trees in the school grounds and in ‘Fetlar forest’. We tried different planting techniques ensuring the location and equipment were right before we laid them down. Pete showed us how to space out the saplings so the roots don’t compete with each other and grow well.

We have chosen Global Goal #15 as one of our main goals for our life on Fetlar and so helping to look after the land and plants on it is important to us.

Also as a rights respecting school it gives us a chance to apply Article 29 from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child which states that we have a right to take part in activities which help us be the best we can be.

Amazingly, while we were in Fetlar Forest we temporarily disturbed a long eared owl nesting in the conifer trees. We got a little clip of it flying above us. I hope you’re just as excited as us.

Thank you Sainsbury’s, Woodland Trust, Peoples Postcode lottery and Yorkshire Tea for funding this initiative.