Steyning Grammar School

Building a Dead Hedge for Steyning Grammar School`s ERA Day

It was wonderful to have such an enthusiastic response from both pupils and teachers on this SFT instigated activity. in the forest glade we have found for them adjacent to the school playing fields  Large dead branches were lifted single handedly and placed into the guiding coppiced stakes hammered into the ground by the pupils.   Over time the wood will rot down, aided by tiny fungi, making a home for a multitude of valuable invertebrates.  Plus, hopefully hedgehogs now so endangered, overwintering butterflies, small birds etc the list is endless.  We are so pleased to be working with their committed teachers and to have been given the opportunity to help them work for the future of these young people on reducing the tragic loss of biodiversity (UK is the worst in the world) and effects of CLIMATE CHANGE which have been so evident this year.