Rector’s Campus Action Day

Author: Tim Nuttall

Starting in Term 1, I revived the Campus Action Day which used to occur amongst Boys’ College parents and students in the 1980s and the 1990s. The idea is for students, parents and staff to spend a morning working to improve the physical environment of the campus. I have been impressed with the volunteers who have turned up on our three days this year, an opportunity to chalk up ‘community service hours’ amongst our students.

We have focused our activities so far on the ‘motherbed’ indigenous garden, on the clearing of alien trees and shrubs in the area of the dams, and on picking up litter in the forest and the upper campus grassland.

In Term 1, we collected over 60 large bags of black jack weeds from the mother bed. In Terms 2 and 3, we felled alien trees – mostly black wattle – in the area of the dams, and fed the branches into a wood chipper. The wood chips are used to make compost and to conserve moisture in the campus gardens.

Photos from Rector's Campus Action Day in Term 1

Photos from Rector's Campus Action Day in Term 2

Photos from Rector's Campus Action Day in Term 3

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