Students celebrate Tu B’Shevat with Langdon College

09th February 2015
Students from Seashell Trust and Langdon College plant a pear sapling to celebrate the Jewish new year of trees Tu B’Shevat.

Specialist college Langdon College visited Seashell Trust to celebrate the Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat.

 

Students planted a sapling at the trust's Cheadle Hulme campus to mark the traditional new year for trees.

 

Tricia Ramjutun, learner voice co-ordinator at Seashell Trust said: “We have built up a really good relationship with Langdon College. We meet regularly throughout the year at events, such as Learner voice forums. They explain Jewish religious events by drama or story telling with photographs. In turn, we invite them to our drama productions and concerts.”

 

The students from Langdon College, a Jewish residential college in Salford, brought a selection of fruit as part of the ceremony.

 

After a blessing on the fruit was said in Hebrew by everyone, the pear tree was planted by students next to the new £10m accommodation.