Date: 20-10-2005

Representatives of Kimpton Primary School, Eco-watch and Gatehouse met at Kimpton school on Wednesday, October 19th to discuss a joint project.

The school has an ancient woodland, Boundary Wood, within its premises, and has made use of this unique facility already by adding bird boxes to the site. Having seen the exciting use of web-cam technology in other schools, the head teacher, Jackie Glover, invited Eco-watch and Gatehouse to the school to see how this project could be developed further. Jackie would like to share this eco-centre by offering Kimpton Primary School as an educational resource within the Andover area.

Gatehouse and Eco-watch have already agreed to form a partnership to promote the educational benefits of web-cam technology. Eco-watch currently monitor the wildlife in Heligan Gardens using this exciting technology and Kimpton intend to reproduce this process in their own grounds.

At the meeting, it was agreed that Eco-watch will provide a wide-ranging set of costed scenarios and that Jackie and Christine, the school’s ICT coordinator, will discuss with parents and local benefactors how much can be afforded in the initial stages. Gatehouse will provide educational support throughout and the project will be monitored on the web sites of all three contributors.

It is hoped that the cabling and basic technology will be in place in time for the Spring term. Further details of how the project develops will be released over the coming months It is agreed that the Gatehouse web site will contain a link to one of the web-cams in this ancient woodland as soon as possible.

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