Sijhou Elementary

On the Sijhou campus, a 200-year-old camphor tree stands close beside a smaller juniper. Over the decades the two grew into one another — their trunks now meet at the base in a quiet V-shape, the older tree's crown sheltering the younger one. We call them the Teacher-Student Tree — the way a teacher stays close, casts shade, and lets the student grow toward the light. 校園裡有一棵 200 年的老樟樹，旁邊緊靠著一棵小羅漢松。多年來兩棵樹的樹幹底部慢慢相依，呈現 V 字共生——老樟為小羅漢松遮蔭護身，正像老師守護學生長大。我們把它命名為「師生樹」。

The two trees have stood through the 1959 August 7 Flood, Typhoon Wayne (1986), and every drought and storm Changhua has thrown at them. In 2021, the Futien Tree Conservation Foundation named our Teacher-Student Tree a national Most Beautiful Campus Tree (Distinguished), granting NT$50,000 for old-tree care. 這兩棵樹一起挺過 1959 年八七水災、1986 年韋恩颱風，以及彰化丟給它們的每一場乾旱與風雨。2021 年榮獲福田樹木保育基金會「全國最美校樹特優獎」，獲得 5 萬元老樹養護金。

Around the tree, our teachers and students wrote, rehearsed and staged a community play — "Thank You, Old Tree — All Those Years" — a quiet drama about why a hometown that grows trees also grows people. 圍繞著這兩棵樹，師生們自編自導自演了一齣社區舞台劇——《感謝那些年，大樹陪我們的日子》——讓守護老樹與善待社區成為一堂安靜的環境教育課。