Bulb Project

The Edina Trust is working in collaboration with the National Museum of Wales’ ‘Spring Bulbs for Schools’ Project.

The 'Spring Bulbs for Schools' project will give pupils the opportunity to be part of a real science investigation where they will be contributing to the final result. This is a live experiment where there are no known outcomes and no ‘right’ answers.

This project is a long running climate change investigation, currently involving 70 primary schools across Wales. In the collaboration with the Edina Trust, this project is being extended to selected Edina schools in Oxfordshire, Scottish Borders, Conwy and Lancashire.

In addition to this project, Edina schools will complete extension activities that will run alongside the 'Spring Bulbs for Schools' core project.

The National Museum of Wales 'Spring Bulbs for Schools' Core Project

The National Museum of Wales Core Project involves Daffodil and Crocus bulbs being planted in pots. Each child will take repsonsibility for their own pot.
Edina Trust schools will upload their weekly bulb measurements and weather recordings to the National Museum of Wales website, along with the schools participating in the Welsh project. This is the sixth year that the project will run.

Edina Trust pilot schools (as well as participating Welsh schools) will receive the following items:

One Daffodil bulb per pupil

One Crocus bulb per pupil

One Pot per pupil

Five mystery bulbs and one pot per school

Four spare bulbs and pots per school

One investigation pack with a thermometer per school

All schools involved will have access to the National Museum of Wales website.

The Edina Trust Extension Bulb Project

The Edina schools will also submit records to the Edina Trust for the extension activities which will include:

the pairing of schools across the UK in order to share data, and

the planting of bulbs in a plot in the ground to compare with those planted in pots for the core project

Each school will receive from the Edina Trust for the extension activities:

Twenty Daffodil bulbs to plant in the ground

Graticulated hand lenses

Digital camera

Plant labels

Potting trowel

Rain gauge

Edina oak sign post (to insert in your plot)

Roll of twine (to mark out your bulb plot)

The schools participating in the Edina Trust's pilot year are as follows:

Conwy
Ysgol Pantyrhedyn
Ysgol Maes Owen
Ysgol Talybont
Ysgol Capelulo

Oxfordshire
Stanford in the Vale Primary School
Harwell Primary School
Hill View Primary School

Scottish Borders
Channelkirk Primary School
Westruther Primary School
Earlston Primary School
Gordon Primary School

Lancashire
Sherwood Primary School
Fulwood and Cadley Primary School
Woodplumpton Primary School

The Bulb Project Resources webpage contains the Edina Trust extension project resources, and details of the National Museum of Wales 'Spring Bulbs for Schools' project resources.

The Bulb Project Equipment webpage contains some more information about the Edina Trust extension project equipment provided to the pilot schools.

We currently expect data from the extension activites to be uploaded onto the Edina Trust website (rather than the National Museum of Wales website). More information to follow as the pages are currently under development.