Students at Royal Oak School had classes in the great outdoors to mark Earth Day 2023, learning lessons from nature and helping to keep it tidy.

Classess were led on a trip outside for the day, which ended with a garbage cleanup and scavenger hunt at Simcoe Park.

Teachers also taught the students how to make compostable bird feeders out of pine cones, lard and bird seed.

“We hung those up around the school property in the trees,” said Julia Murray, Royal Oak’s head of school.

It was also an opportunity for the youngest students to spend time with their student mentors, the oldest students, as part of the school’s mentorship program.