Newtongrange Primary have been planting trees at the Mining Museum!

On Wednesday 19th April, pupils from Newtongrange Primary School came to visit us and helped plant new trees. Around the outside of the Museum, we have beautiful greenspaces and several woodland areas, nicknamed the Lady Victoria Woods. We are dedicated to conserving these woodland areas and, sadly, a few months ago had to cut down several trees with ash die back disease. Rather than plant new trees ourselves, we recruited some helpers!

Watch their film below to see what they said about their tree planting day.

Pupils came along and learned more about biodiversity and our local ecosystems. We had chosen native hawthorn trees to plant and each pupil had their own area and their own tree to plant on the day.

Luckily, the weather was on our side and 15 new trees were planted! The pupils all did a brilliant job and took great care to protect the roots and make sure the earth was packed in correctly around the trees.

These trees will help provide for local wildlife and help to improve our health and clean our air.

We would like to say a big thank you and well done to all the pupils and staff from Newtongrange Primary for helping plant our trees! Thanks also to Ryan for the fab film and Creative Carbon Scotland for supporting the project.

Part of the Midlothian Climate Beacon Project.