Grade 2 learners from Christ Church Preparatory School and College roll up their sleeves on January 28 to plant spekboom plants.
According to the school, there are many environmental benefits to planting spekboom, including improving the quality of the air we breathe.
According to Garden and Home South Africa, the spekboom is a proudly South African succulent that helps fight air pollution. “It acts as a carbon sponge, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and turning it into plant matter,” stated Garden and Home.
The learners also learned about what plants need to grow. “They related the spekboom to Jesus, who took in the bad of the world and released his goodness into the world,” said Dawn Schmitz the school’s marketing manager.
Christ Church’s teaching programme has a strong Christian theme and includes daily and weekly Bible studies, depending on the grade of the child. “Every day, the spekbooms in class will remind the children to be more Christ-like and spread the love of the Lord,” Schmitz concluded
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