Junior children have carried out a tree survey in the school grounds, giving them the opportunity to use a variety of ICT skills including:

• digital photography - carrying out a photographic survey of trees using a digital camera on loan from Tupton Hall School. Details such as leaves, bark, fruit/seeds and tree form were recorded
• graphical modelling - producing a plan of the school grounds showing the position and species of each tree, together with key, scale and bearing
• searching large databases - use of the Internet, reference CD-ROMS and books to find out about trees
• wordprocessing - combining text and images to produce a page of information about each tree with a view to publishing on the internet
• branching database - design of a yes/no questionnaire type database as an aid to tree identification