Living Heritage Homepage Home Our Project History of our Forest Mrs George's interview The people who helped in our Forest Forest Poems Worm Farm Cartoons Worm Farms Birds in our Forest Mr McGowan's Interview Mrs Hunter's interview Mrs. Anne Tyas Mrs Wilcox's interview Bugs Trees in our Forest Zero Waste at Campbell's Bay Sarah Sheeran Dr Richard Hursthouse Our Forest now Our Trip to KERP Glossary Our Team Curriculum Links Credits	Campbell's Bay Primary School Campbell's Bay Community Forest History of our Forest A long time ago, our whole school site was a forest.  The school was established in 1925 and the fathers cleared the land for the school to be built. The area at the bottom of the gully was never cleared, so some large species survived, but over the years, the weeds grew and the forest used to be used as a rubbish dump.  Not a proper one, but lots of people threw their old tyres and things there.  There were lots of weeds.  After the war, the returned soldiers planted some pohutukawa in Centennial Park. Mr Ron Wilcox, who's father was the Headmaster of Campbell's Bay School in the 1930's, had helped plant many of the trees around the school.  Mr Bernard Stanley and others also helped to plant many totara and rimu around 25 years ago.  In 1991/92 some periodic detention workers came and cleared a lot of the ginger. Then the Board of Trustees decided in 1994 that the forest should be cleaned up properly and lots of native trees were planted. Fiona helped us know what to do. This is before the board walk was constructed, around the early 1990's.   This is when the boardwalk was being constructed.   There are lots of pegs showing all the trees that have been donated.   The pines at the top of the bank were cut down in 1996.   Mr McLennan 1996 planting.    More wood Here was where there was going to be a viewing platform that could fit a class, to have a lesson about the forest. Click here to go back to Our Project