Recently, our Year 9 Social Studies students were treated to a visit to the beautiful Pūtaringamotu/Riccarton Bush.
Riccarton Bush is the sole Canterbury remnant of ancient podocarp forest which once covered larger areas of the region. It was also the home of the Deans family, the first European settlers of the Canterbury plains.
To read more on Pūtaringamotu/Riccarton Bush, go to this link here: https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/riccarton-bush/