When you get a lovely surprise thank you email from a group of students, it’s a very good feeling that you are getting something right.

“Dearest Kim,

Thank you for the opportunities you gave us for the MAD week, we thoroughly enjoyed each day. The experience was amazing, and we all agree we would do it again in a heartbeat, as the time we spent with both you and Tinker was awesome, educational, and above all fun.

I know that we love Tinker and were very vocal about it during the week, but it also extends to you, thank you so much for being a such an incredible guide, the snacks and the food were delicious, and the activities we did were calm and relaxing especially under the Forrest setting.

The staff and scientists there were super nice, and it was great opportunity to meet them, and it has persuaded some of us to look for a career similar to the ones at Wytham Woods.

We particularly enjoyed the session at the end of Tuesday with the microscopes, Infra-red, and 3D scanners. Playing around with the new technology was incredible and a welcome change to our school’s tech which only works once a blue moon. We hope your research goes amazingly in the future and thank you so much for everything.

From

Lara, Flo, Archie, Stefan, and Elliott

P.S were really sorry we couldn’t get this to you sooner, our school emails were having problems and wouldn’t send anything since we broke up from school.”