The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Pupils’ Christmas tree trail planted
Forfar primary pupils have set all ages a novel festive challenge with a local winter walkabout. The P4 youngsters at Strathmore School have decorated 25 wooden pallet Christmas trees, now forming a seasonal trail.
The school hopes residents will get into the festive spirit after the enterprise group children worked on the fundraiser.
Te a c h e r Lynsey Mathieson said: “This is going to be a very different festive period for children and their families. More people will be staying home during the holidays.
“So we thought an outdoors adventure would be the best way to spread some seasonal joy.
“It just snowballed from there.”
Ma p s with the tree locations have been produced for free by local printing firm Astute.
The school is also hoping to create extra excitement around the trail with their #strathietrees social media hashtag.
“People seem to like that the pupils have put so much of themselves into decorating and ‘planting’ the trees around F o r f a r ,” added Mrs Mathieson.
“Anything raise for great but everyone.”
They dropped off one of the trees to PC S c o tt Anderson at Forfar Police Station, with shops, businesses and other locations also on board.
The hope is families will tour the town to tick off all the trees on the trail.
Maps are available in all Forfar’s primary schools and to the public via the library, St Margaret’s, East & Old, St Fergus and Lowson churches and Angus Pet and Aquatics.
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Angus communities brightened up their town centres with virtual lights switch-ons.
Sixth-year-Forfar Academy pupils helped town P1s in a small-scale ceremony at The Cross.
In Montrose a small crowd joined in the live streaming of Santa Claus leading the local lights switch-on.
Carnoustie residents were encouraged to flick the switch on their own home displays at the same time as the streets were lit up in a virtual event, and Arbroath is geared to stream its switch- on at 8pm today.