Location - Dorothy Stringer School, Brighton

Date - March 2007

Trees - 500 trees - a mix of Oak, Ash, Green Beech and Native Dogwood.

Notes - Dorothy Stringer School has been awarded Healthy School and Eco-School Status as well as being nominated a Training school, Partnership Promotion School, Brighton and Hove School Sports Co-ordinator and a Specialist Sports College.

The location for the planting is called Waterhall and the school has worked to set up an environmental education partnership with the Brighton & Hove Rugby Club and with the Friends of Waterhall. The small woodland will form part of a series of improvements to what was a land fill site. This site shares part of the land on which the playing fields used by the rugby club are situated and is set in the environmentally sensitive South Downs, soon to become a National Park
The school is working to increase and maintain the biodiversity of the site and
so meet local bio-diversity targets by improving. The site is geographically close to the largest colony of the Wartbiter (Decticus verrucivorous) a red data book species, and the same is true of a range of other chalk grassland specialist plants. The site is accessible to the public.
The pupils have already planted 200 trees. The additional 500 trees make a substantial contribution to the site.