WHERE ARE OUR TREES?

Tree Massacre!!

Where have all the beautiful trees, which used to line the old bike sheds gone? 

Mid November, I was horrified to watch dozens of innocent Leyland Cypress trees ruthlessly hacked away from their roots, and inhumanely shred to pieces by wood chippers.

Although the murder of the schools trees is not a huge global scale, it still adds up, the numbers still count and there are now fewer trees today that yesterday. The school should  be supporting the fight to save out planet and doing everything in its power to preserve the little we have left of our precious, fragile environment. The school should be teaching its pupils that importance of retaining natural beauty, not showing them how to destroy it!

And why were these trees cut down? What has it solved? I asked Mr. Bendry, Acting Head Teacher and site manager, to give a statement explaining the reasoning for the disappearance of the trees" The trees were cut down deliberately, they looked a mess and were old. They were causing problems, blocking the drains and we were afraid they would undermine the tennis courts. But we do intend to replace the trees with a hedge."

Having heard Mr. Bendry's statement, I do not agree that the trees looked a mess; trees are beautiful, valuable plants, which should be treasured. The fact that the trees were old is even more of a reason to keep them, with so many trees being destroyed now and old tree is a rarity.

This photograph shows where the trees were ripped from their roots!