EAGER schoolchildren have helped improve their local ecosystem and preserve the memory of one of Meirionnydd’s most famous son.

A fun-filled morning in Trawsfynydd organised by the Snowdonia National Park Authority saw Ysgol Bro Hedd Wyn pupils try out their green fingers.

The pupils planted some apple trees at Bryn y Gofeb before heading up to Yr Ysgwrn, the home of their school’s eponymous war poet, to build some nest boxes to place around the farm.

The pupils will return in time to monitor their boxes.

The national park team thanked the children for their endeavours.

Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans), was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard’s chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.

Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the bardic name Hedd Wyn (blessed peace) from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionnydd valleys.