Last Thursday, Mr Williams and Miss Stretch took 47 senior students to Arbor Day at Minogue Park. Hillcrest joined 14 other schools and helped plant over 10,000 trees! Arbor Day is part of a city wide plan to make Hamilton a city within a park, helping native animals and providing lots of green spaces for the city to enjoy in the future. A massive thank you to the Hamilton City Council for organising the day and for providing free buses so that schools could attend. The council also had some ‘Kids in Nature’ stands where children could learn more about some important Enviro topics. It was amazing to see our students getting stuck in and learning how to plant trees correctly. Hopefully they are inspired to plant some native plants in their own backyards.