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Improving the environment on a Wednesday afternoon
Sixth Form students from Calder High in Mytholmroyd are doing 'environmental enrichment' work with Calder Future one afternoon a week. This project also forms part of Calder Future's 'V' youth initiative in the Upper Calder Valley.
As part of the enrichment work the students have adopted a variety of sites , so that they can learn about nature conservation and also so that the local community and wildlife benefit from their input. The series of tasks will cover the 2009/10 academic year until March 2010. The students have chosen to do weeding and cutting back at a cottage garden that has been created on Midgley Road in Mytholmroyd.
They have also been busy putting some wooden steps in by the bowling club to lead down to the river, a project suggested by the Reverend Allison. This will then enable his youth group to carry out clean-ups and conservation work on the riverside in the summer months. This area of riverbank is the one that was tidied up by corporate volunteers from a nearby firm, Sweet & Maxwell, in July 2008 - a taskday organised by Calder Future - see the report and pics.
More recently the Sixth Formers have worked with Pennine Housing to plant some trees on the Banksfield estate at Mytholmroyd. They have also carried out some woodland work at Brierley Fields, which is right opposite their playing fields - they can see the woods across the river, so it was a particularly relevant project for the school students.
