Wye Wood Project - Students see the wood for the trees (From Hereford Times)
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Wye Wood Project - Students see the wood for the trees
12:00pm Thursday 30th July 2009 in Features
Pictured from left to right, back row, Ethan English, Coun Jennifer Hyde, Ben Napper. Front row: James Smith, Michael Nash and Ian Gwynne.
FIVE students from across the county were celebrating after achieving Open College Network (OCN) qualifications in coppicing and coppice products.
The boys have been attending a weekly course at the Wye Wood Project as part of the Live and Learn Programme for 14 to 16-year-olds.
The Live and Learn programme is managed by Herefordshire Council School Improvement Services and funded through the European Social Fund. On the final day of the course the boys invited parents and relatives to the site where Councillor Jennifer Hyde, cabinet member for children and young people, presented the students with their OCN certificates.
This was followed by a barbecue prepared by the students.
The boys had attended the Wye Wood site, in Aconbury Woods, each week since last September and, during the course, have learnt pole lathe turning, producing items such as chair legs and rounders bats. They have also learnt the traditional skill of coppicing and been taught how to use the coppiced hazel rods to build hazel fencing hurdles.
