• Mandela Day 2025

The Harold Porter Botanical Garden in Betty's Bay has been a very good friend to Pikkewyntjies over the years. The school has been given trees to provide very welcome shade in the playground in Summer and one year a lorry arrived with a water tank to make it easy for us to water the trees and the grass in the playground.

This year on Mandela Day, the Gardens helped the school again, with six trees and they didn't just deliver them. staff members brought the trees and had the children help plant and water them. They were so good with the children who loved the experience.

Afterwards when they were all having rooibos and sandwiches, the children were surprised and interested to discover that trees don't only provide shade and somewhere for the birds to perch, but are very important in making clean air for people and animals to breathe.

The children visit their trees every day to see how they are doing.