Tree Passports - June 2003

The children from Year Two worked with Year Three from the Junior School to produce 'Tree Passports'. The major trees around the site were investigated with measurements, rubbings, drawings and photographas being taken. A passport for that tree was then produced. The passports were laminated to make them weatherproof and were then hung on the tree so that its variety and vital statistics are easily available for all to see.

In the grounds we found: Oak, Lime, Horse Chestnut, Silver Birch, Holly, Elder, Field Maple, Wych Elm, Hawthorn and Rowan. Outside the front of the junior school are a wide variety of non-native ornamental trees, some of which even Simon from the Forestry Commission couldn't positively identify.

	Girls taking a bark rubbing of one of the ornamental trees outside the front of the Junior School.
	Children filling out their 'Tree Pasports'.