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Be Inspired

Be inspired by learning from successes from other

Eco-Schools and find out more about campaigns to
get involved with this term.

National Tree Week 2024: 23 November – 1 December

Since 1973, National Tree Week has been the U.K.’s largest tree celebration, held at
the end of November to mark the beginning of winter and the tree planting season.
The aim is to encourage the public to plant trees and appreciate the beauty and
importance of trees in our environment and life.
Here are examples of activities Eco-Schools have been involved with related to
trees….

Llangollen Whitebeam still in existence and taken to Chester
Zoo.
Learners from Ysgol Dinas Bran,
Denbighshire have been learning about There, skilled botanists cultivated the
the Llangollen Whitebeam, a very rare plants for several years by recreating the
tree which only exists at two locations in unique environment of Llangollen in a
the world. behind-the-scenes plant nursery.
A project in partnership between the Now, six years later, 20 of the rare trees
Clwydian Range and Dee Valley National have been replanted with support from
Landscape and Natural Resources Wales the pupils in several locations around
involved carefully collecting berries from Llangollen, including one at Dinas Bran.
some of the only 315 trees that were