National Tree Day 2020/Lá na gCrann 2020

On October first 2020, it was National Tree Day in Ireland. National Tree Day is about getting people outside and showing how important trees are in our everyday life.

For National Tree Day, we went on a nature walk around the outside of the school and around the church car park.

Different types of trees we discovered on our nature walk were: Beech, Sycamore, Oak, Chestnut, Hazel, Ash and Elm. Those trees are Deciduous. That term means they lose their leaves in Autumn and Winter. The most common tree we found was Beech.Birch, Spruce, Pine are Coniferous/Evergreen. Coniferous means that they keep their leaves all year long.

Benefits of trees:

• Trees provide us with oxygen
• Take in carbon dioxideProvide paper
• They provide some animals and insects with food
• Birds build nests in tree
• They provide us with walking trails for people for fitness/mental health
• They also provide humans with food as well
• They provide tree houses Finally, scenery-natural beauty

by Amie-Rose Cushe and Emma Cullen