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Holby Junior School, SouthamptonRainforest Day
Taking Action for the RainforestsDominic Lange, a pupil at Holbury Junior School near Southampton,
was fascinated with what he learnt about rainforests and horrified
at how fast they were disappearing. He felt he had to do something
and searched the web for ideas. The World Land Trust’s
website caught his imagination - £25 to save an acre of forest
was “a good price” – and with the support of his
teacher, Miss Emma Baser, he engaged the whole of year 6 in a grand
fundraising project. They learnt about rainforest, designed
T-shirts (see photo, below) and held a Rainforest Day
in May with an afternoon of special events: a sponsored silence, sponsored
reading, a sponsored walk around a one acre of a field, cake sales
and book sales. Saving thousands of trees...Receiving a cheque from the children for £1060, WLT trustee Professor Renton Righelato, thanked the school and told them that their fantastic project had saved over 40 acres of rainforest: tens of thousands of trees, perhaps thousands of birds and millions of frogs. ...and appearing in the Hall of Fame!Holbury Junior School informed us of its successful fundraising activities and we were pleased to include the school in the WLT Fundraising Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognises schools that have used imaginative and unusual methods to help save wilderness and wildlife by raising money for the World Land Trust. Your school in the Hall of FameHave you held a fundraising event and want to be featured in the WLT hall of fame? - contact us with your information. |
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