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title: "Year 5 Tree Planting - Creating a Micro Forest!"
url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2024-11-06-year-5-tree-planting-creating-a-micro-forest"
school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy"
---

# Year 5 Tree Planting - Creating a Micro Forest!

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/24e3f65a-2ea9-4735-b176-e0baac59de8c.jpg)   6 November 2024

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Year 5 were very lucky this week to be invited by Lancashire Council to help create a micro forest on Winterton Road.  We were all very excited to plant some trees and help to save the planet!  It was very muddy, but great fun and we all learned some valuable skills about how to plant trees!

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