Wood is Good rolled out to NZ schoolsFriday 26 Feb 2021 Thanks to funding provided by Te Uru Rakau and Forest Growers Levy Trust the new primary school programme, “Wood is Good” is being rolled out across New Zealand this year.Led by the Southern North Island Wood Council and developed by their CEO, Erica Kinder, this school-based session is based on the old “Share the Road” days that have been running in the North Island for many years. All eight Wood Councils around New Zealand are coordinating with a new full time programme manager to ensure schools are targeted in each region. The funding provides books, resources, high vis vests and in Canterbury’s case, a collaboration with the NZ Trucking Association’s Safety Truck. Educational sessions are based around bringing a fully loaded log truck to a primary school and holding presentations with local forestry reps around where those logs have come from and where they are going, as well as safety with log trucks on the roads. Students get to view the truck, discover the blind spots and talk about the logs. The aim of this programme is to inform students and teachers of how our sector operates in their community and the benefits and uses of pine. A range of child friendly forestry books, puzzles, math’s activities and wooden prizes round out these sessions and to this end a log truck safety video has been filmed in Rotorua and funded by the Log Transport Safety Committee. View the video here. You can also follow the progress of these school days over the year on Facebook. If you’re in New Zealand and your company would like to support of one of the 50 forestry and safety sessions booked across NZ for 2021, please contact Angelene Jones woodisgoodnz@gmail.com .jpg)
|
Copyright 2004-2024 © Innovatek Ltd. All rights reserved. |