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EDUCATION 085 The great outdoors!


Schoolchildren help save endangered trees


This year’s Living Land event for Kent schoolchildren in Years 3 and 4 was another resounding success, with up to 2,800 pupils enjoying a day of outdoor fun at the Kent Showground, Detling. The event, now in its 15th year, is aimed at educating children about farming, agriculture, countryside and healthy eating, and gives an opportunity for visitors to taste local produce, see dancing sheep during a ‘sheep show’, touch farm animals


and watch many demonstrations and displays including a birds of prey show. The experiences gained can easily be linked to the curriculum in many different ways.


If you would like your school to take part next year you need to book early because places are limited. This event is not open to the public and children can only attend with their school. • For more information, visit www. kentshowground.co.uk


Children from four local primary schools – Goudhurst, Lamberhurst, Sandhurst and Downe – visited the Forestry Commission’s Bedgebury National Pinetum, near Goudhurst, where they learned about the lives of children in Malawi, their critically endangered national tree, the Mulanje cedar, and toured the Pinetum to learn about its tree conservation work and to meet some rare trees.


School scoops top drama prize


The Mead School in Tunbridge Wells has won a top prize in a national drama competition.


The ISA Drama Festival is the annual Independent Schools Association celebration of the dramatic arts in which ISA member schools from across the country perform in the competition, with each performance assessed by an independent judge against set criteria. Winners are awarded over a variety of categories, following adjudication. This year The Mead School’s Year 6 won The Hydesville Tower Prize for best


musical production with their performance of Daisy Pulls it Off, a parody of life in an English boarding school set in the 1920s, and parents, friends and relatives were treated to a viewing of the winning performance at local Tunbridge Wells’ venue Trinity Theatre.


Each of the local primaries has links to schools in Malawi through the work of the charity Starfi sh Malawi After learning about the plight of the Mulanje cedar the children had fun planting wild-collected seeds from the critically endangered trees in the Pinetum nursery. The seedlings will form part of the propagation trials for the Save Our Cedar project, which Bedgebury National Pinetum is supporting. The project in Malawi will map Mulanje mountain, identifying remaining cedar trees and the best planting sites. Local community members will receive training in nursery techniques and enterprise development and will be supported in setting up nurseries around the Mountain. Forestry Commission staff travel the world to collect seeds from rare and endangered species for propagation and are supported in this work by the Friends of Bedgebury Pinetum. • Visit www.forestry.gov.uk/bedgebury


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