PLANT TREES: I’M A SCHOOL
…get trees at your local school
Green streets, greener playgrounds
Work with us to add street trees in and around your school.
If you need more shade in your playground and would like to protect children from air pollution, then contact us to get trees planted at your school.
Benefits of school street trees
Green corridors
The planting of avenues of trees close to local schools helps to create green corridors. This reduces speeding traffic and encourages walking to school, reducing the amount of cars on the roads.
This in turn decreases the amount of particulates, carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide entering the atmosphere, high levels of which are known to affect respiratory function and stunt lung growth in children, possibly irreversibly.
Road safety
Trees are able to prevent dangerous illegal pavement parking directly outside schools, and to help with the dispersion of air pollution.
When located correctly trees can act as a protective screen between playing children and dirty exhaust fumes. For example; the boundary wall of Rathfern School provides some protection from traffic pollution but as the trees grow their canopies will provide much more.
Our school package
We provide all you need to ensure the smooth running of the project, including lesson plans, tree watering guidelines, fundraising tips and much more.
Our school ‘Treesource Package’ includes four lessons plans focused on; Introduction, Competition, Celebration, and Commitment.
Our sponsors
A heartfelt special thanks to Regular Cleaning and the National Trust for their continued support for The School Trees Project.
‘Put local people at the heart of tree-planting projects: studies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects.’
— The Ten Golden Rules of Tree Planting, The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew