Our Woodland

                                         This is part of our woodland behind our pitch!

Ann Chapman decided to introduce an enviromentaly friendly theme into our club aims. One of the intrests of the members was tree planting.

Her aim was enchancing biodiversity and creating a woodland for next generations.

The aim was acheived in two ways. First, planting trees and shrubs to increase a diversity of spaces for birds and insects. The second objective was to devlope a  pond to provide a natural habitat sutible for the species that inhabbit such enviroments.

3/9/2010 First visit to the Rousay School Woodlands

Today we visited the Rousay School Woodland with Jenny Taylor, Ann Chapman and John Vetterlein.  We saw spiders, insects, plant, seeds, sycamore, ash, willow, rowan, white beam and moss.  Over the next year we will be monitoring the growth and change in our woods.

Our woods

Rousay Primary School woods was created by the schools janitor Ann Chapman.  Ann is extremely dedicated and has created a wonderful area for the children to explore and learn in.  Pupils are extremely grateful to Ann for this wonderful area.

Trees (kinds)

1.ASH
2.BIRD CHERRY
3.BEACH
4.COMMON ALDER
5.DOWNY BIRCH
6.DOG ROSE
7.SOFT DOWNY ROSE
8.ELDER BERRY
9.EARED WILLOW
10.GREY ELDER
11.GREY WILLOW
12.HAWTHORN
13.HAZEL
14.OTHER KINDS OF WILLOW
15.ROWAN
16.SWEEDISH WHITE BEAM
17.SYCAMORE
18.TEA-LEAVED WILLOW
19.WITCH ELM
20.MIXED WILLOW

The dark side

                         Us in the dark part of our woods.          

Getting lighter

 

Us in the woods.

Exploring our woods

This is us stil exploring our woods!

Still exploring

                                                         This is us still exploring our woods

Further on

This is us further on in the woods.

Ann Chapman

This is Ann Chapman in the white jumper on the left.

Us in our woods

This is us with Jenny Taylor looking at a Sycamore tree.

Midges

This is us fighting off the midges.

Our woodland samples

We collected seeds and parts of trees from our woodland which we took back to our classroom.  We are going to try and grow the seeds and see if roots will form on the tree samples.  We will let you know how we get on.

Goodbye woods

Starting to come out of our woods.

Moss and Liken

                                          Moss which shows healthy air (we found it on a tree)

                                          This is Liken, it also shows a sign of healthy air.

Wildlife

                                          Snail

Plants

                                          These bluebell Seed Carriers

Bluebells occur in broad leaved woodlands.
Bluebells bloom from April-May.
Carpeting the ground beneath a canopy of fresh green leaves, massed ranks of bluebells form a sight to mach almost anything in the natural world.

Berries

                                          Rowan berries

plants

                                          Cyclamen leaves
                                    

Rowan

                                          Rowan

Trees

                                         Sycamore and White Beam

Trees

                                         White beam

Trees

                                          Ash

Grass

                                         Montbretia

Flower

                                                    This is a pink flower that we found in a patch of grass.

Flowers

                                            Bell Heather

They can reach up to 90cm (36)inch.

They can live up 40 years.

It can be seen flowering in mid autum and late spring.

Bell heather

 normally grows on dry ground but it is growing on wet ground here.

Plants

Ferns

Wild ferns grow under trees and in sheltered places.

Plants (cowparsley)

 Theses are photos of          

cowpar-

sley

Canopy

These are pictures of the Canopy in our wood!

Catkins

-----A female Catkin.

A male Catkin.----------



                              Male catkins can grow up to 2-4 inches and the female catkins can can grow up to 0.33 inches