We’re up to 1000 trees! A whole wood! That’s one thousand trees given to Year 6 students at each primary school in Wymondham - Ashleigh, Browick Road and Robert Kett - over the last 5 years. We did check with the new school at Silfield, but they won’t have a Year 6 for another six years: we’ll be waiting!

Greening Wymondham’s Carol Sharp talked to this year’s Year Sixes about the value and significance of trees before the all-important handover last month.

“Visiting the schools gives us real hope for more human connection with Nature in the future.

“The Y6 children understand the importance of the trees we give them. They're very well informed and asked some very thoughtful questions."

The native trees are ordered from the Woodland Trust – the species being Blackthorn, Hazel, Wild Cherry, Silver Birch, English Oak, Rowan, Sessile Oak, Field Maple, Grey Willow. GW stores them, wraps them and gives advice on care. Any that can’t be planted in gardens can be found a place somewhere in Wymondham’s woods.

This is the fifth year Greening Wymondham has donated trees to students. Any local businesses that could support this would be most welcome next year. And we would love to have pictures of the pupils with their newly planted trees – email them to greeningwymondham@gmail.com and we’ll feature them on our social media and plot them on a map.

We celebrated another success at Norfolk’s Biodiversity Awards: runners-up in the Rivers & Wetlands section, sponsored by the Norfolk Rivers Trust. We came second to Kelvin Allen, who’s behind much of the work on the Wensum catchment.

Our nomination mentioned our river testing, balsam bashing and the training some of us have undertaken to identify the presence of river voles (hurrah!) and invasive signal crayfish (boo!) Not to mention the work we’ve done in the wet woodland that is Friarscroft.

Join us and the redoubtable Wymondham in Bloom on November 15th for the Winter Wymondham Litter Pick, starting at the Methodist Church. Who knows, there could be mince pies!