This month sees us running our next two school sessions, postponed from the Spring due to Covid-19. Myself and Andover Trees United‘s current Education Officer Emily Roper, will be working with Appleshaw St Peters and Portway Junior Schools, following on from the sessions that Becky and I ran earlier in the year. These sessions willContinue reading “Starting Up Again: Ash Tree Stream Emerges from Lockdown”
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Sharing the Learning at Portway Juniors
It’s been lovely to see that even in semi-lockdown the children at Portway Junior School have been using our free online resources (Identifying Ash Trees and Making Art with Ash Trees) to inspire more creative learning with their local trees. Thank you to teacher Alex Walker and her colleagues for sharing these images with us,Continue reading “Sharing the Learning at Portway Juniors”
Tree Seasons, by Lucy (Year 3)
Each child that is involved in the Ash Tree Stream project across the five schools, has a sketchbook that they are using to record their experiences of Ash Trees and the ecosystems of which they are a part. We use them in project sessions and they are encouraged to take them home and use themContinue reading “Tree Seasons, by Lucy (Year 3)”
Exploring Together at Portway Junior School
At Portway Juniors they have their own small woodland, planted with the Andover Trees United Director, Wendy Davis, and a woodland trail that runs through it, along the edge of the school field. The wood is fairly young and consists of a mix of native species. Today’s group of children were a Year 3 class,Continue reading “Exploring Together at Portway Junior School”
Ash Tree Stream 