news about school activities in the OneOak project
What an adventure we are having following the life of OneOak! From meeting the tree in the autumn, to watching it fall with a mighty crash on a snowy winter’s day, we are enjoying every minute of it! Our latest instalment in the OneOak story came with a visit to the Deep In Wood sawmill…
Watercolour artist Rebecca Hind held a workshop with Years 3 and 4 at Bladon Primary School. She showed the children the OneOak paintings that she has been working on over the last six months, and inspired them to produce their own under expert tuition. Sam I know how to use watercolour paint now – I…
The children in ‘Foxes’ class at Willowcroft Community School, Didcot have been painting and sculpting winter trees. Although the children have not yet seen the OneOak in the winter, they were inspired by the Oak Trees at their Forest School site. One tree in particular stood out as it was silhouetted in the afternoon sun…
As part of their literacy work this week, Year 3 and 4 pupils at Woodstock Primary School concentrated on persuasive arguments and debates. Today they held The BIG TREE DEBATE. Should the OneOak tree be felled? Before the debate children were split into two groups – they then had to come up with reasons for…
Children from Bladon Primary enjoyed walking through Blenheim’s forest trail, led by the Education Team of Blenheim Palace. They saw planted and managed forest, and ancient woodland. They had a colour chart and tried to find every colour on there to show them that the woods weren’t just brown and green. After the Forest Trail…
22nd September to 21st October 2009 Mhairi MacGillivray-Edwards reports on the school visits I have now waved goodbye to the last school group to visit the One Oak from Stonesfield Primary School, packed away the last measuring tape and bug pot and taken a last look around the oak tree until January, when the big…
The children of Bladon Primary read that the oak tree would give us 5 cubic metres of wood, but they didn’t know what a cubic metre was. So they made one in their hall. All 19 of them could stand inside it! Then, using the whole class and metre sticks, they made the 5 cubic…
Niel Nicholson of Nicholson Nurseries visited Bladon Primary school today to help sow the next generation of oak trees. We have already posted the story of how difficult it has been to collect acorns this autumn see here. With help from many of the staff of Blenheim Palace, the total number of seeds collected by…
Several schools have now been out to meet the OneOak and all have had a fantastic time. We have been very lucky with the weather, even this week when it was supposed be pretty wet. Everybody has had a lovely time walking out to the tree and trying to find conkers on the way. Once…
Children from Bladon C of E Primary School visited the OneOak tree this week. Will found a caterpillar on a leaf. We found a tree which has been cut down and Jake found it and we liked to climb on it too. Ben and Jake. When we were being scientists we worked out the height…
