Horticultural Trainee training sessions 2012/2013
Session Type
INDUCTION
INDUCTION
HORTICULTURE
INDUCTION
INDUCTION
INDUCTION
INDUCTION
Date
Monday
17th
September
Time
9.30am
10.30am
Monday
17th
September
Tuesday
18th
September
Tuesday
18th
September
12pm to
4pm
Wednesday
19th
September
Thursday
20th
September
1.30pm
Friday 21st
September
1.30pm
8am
1.30pm
1.30pm
INDUCTION
HORTICULTURE
Tuesday
25thth
September
Tuesday
2nd October
1.303.30pm
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
Tuesday 9th
October
1.303.30pm
BOTANY
Wednesday
10th
October
Monday
2pm to
5pm
HORTICULTURE
BOTANY
1.303.30pm
10.15am
Session Title
Welcome and
personnel
induction
Session Leader
Christine Frey
Introduction to
the Botanic
Garden
Introduction to
the Harcourt
Arboretum
Start in sections
Alison Foster
Introduction to
the Hardy
Collection
(including
pernicious weed
awareness)
The Role of
Botanic Gardens
and Arboreta
Health and
Safety induction
(including
safeguarding)
Introduction to
the Glasshouse
collection
Introduction to
the University
Tom Price
Introduction to
Glasshouse
Pruning
Introduction to
Garden
Machinery and
Hedge Cutting
Introduction to
Plant
Identification
Sessions and to
the Herbarium
project
Plant Biodiversity
Session: Nonvascular plants
Undergraduate
Alison Foster and Ben Jones
Alison Foster
Jill Walker
Kate Pritchard
Induction for New Staff – an
on-line course
http://courses.learning.ox.ac.uk
Kate Pritchard
Tom Price and Rob Hotchen
Tom Price and Kate Pritchard
Stephen Harris & Caroline
Pannell
Timothy Walker
15th
October
Tuesday
16th
October
Wednesday
17th
October
to 12pm
walkabout
10.30
Friends
Organisation
Liz Woolley
2pm to
5pm
Stephen Harris & Caroline
Pannell
Thursday
18th
October
Wednesday
24th
October
2pm to
5pm
Wednesday
31st
October
TBC
Friday 2nd
November
2pm to
5pm
Plant Biodiversity
Session: Basic
floral structure
and introduction
to keys
Undergraduate
Practical – leaf
adaptations
Plant Biodiversity
Session: Basic
floral structure
and introduction
to keys
Plant Biodiversity
Session:
Monocots
1.30pm
Plant parts
Tom Price
12th
November
to 16th
November
w/c
November
12th
16th
November?
Tuesday
20th
November
Thursday
22nd
November
Tuesday
27th
November
All week
Arboretum
placement
Ben Jones
Arboretum
Schools Session
Lynn Daley
TBC
Conifers
Ben Jones
2pm to
3.30pm
Introduction to
Plant Sciences
Liam Dolan
(For all OBGHA staff)
10.30 noon
Timothy Walker
HORTICULTURE
Tuesday 4th
December
1.30pm
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
Tuesday
11th
December
Tuesday
1.30pm
Plant
Classification &
the APG
Herbarium Tour
and making a
herbarium
specimen
Introduction to
BRAHMS – the
Plant Records
Database
Glasshouse
families I
Primary Schools
Emma Williams/Kate Castleden
INDUCTION
BOTANY
BOTANY
BOTANY
BOTANY
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
ARBORETUM
SCHOOLS
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
INDUCTION
BOTANY
BOTANY
SCHOOLS
2pm to
5pm
2pm to
3.30pm
Timothy Walker
Stephen Harris & Caroline
Pannell
Stephen Harris & Caroline
Pannell
Stephen Harris
Alison Foster
Kate Pritchard
Education
Session
CV Preparation
and career
planning
– TBC when school bookings
come in.
Alison Foster
Integrated Pest
Management
Kate Pritchard and Neil Helyer
Plant Health and
Quarantine
Kate Pritchard
(For all staff)
Winter twigs
Tom Price
TBC
Pruning top fruit
& soft fruit
Tuesday
12th
February
Tuesday
19th
February
Tuesday
26th
February
Friday 1st
March
10.30am
to
11.30am
1.30pm
Vegetables: Why
we grow them,
planning etc
TBC
Tom Price & Chris Lanzack
(Waterperry Gardens)
(For all staff)
Jim Penny
HORTICULTURE
Tuesday 5th
March
10.30am
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
HORTICULTURE
Tuesday
12th March
Tuesday
19th March
1.30pm
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
Tuesday
16th April
26th April
Summer
2013
Friday 3rd
May
TBC
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
Tuesday
14th May
1.30pm
CAREERS
PLANNING
HORTICULTURE
HORTICULTURE
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
HORTICULTURE
HORTICULTURE
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
H&S training?
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
18th
December
Tuesday 8th
January
Tuesday
15th
January
Tuesday
22nd
January
Tuesday
29th
January
Tuesday 5th
February
1.30pm
(Glass
trainee)
and
2.30pm
(Hardy
trainee)
10.30am
to
1.00pm
10.30am
to
11.30am
1.30pm
Kate Pritchard
TBC
11am
Attend the
Friends Coffee
Morning tour
Staking
Herbaceous
Perennials
TBC
10.30am
to
12.00pm
1.30pm
Pruning
techniques
TBC
Angiosperms Part
1
Attend a guided
tour
Delivery of
Friends’ Tour –
Glass trainee
TBC
11am to
12pm
Clare Kelly
Tom Price
TBC
Ben Jones
TBC
n/a
Tom Price
BOTANY
PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
ARBORETUM
BOTANY
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
BOTANY
ARBORETUM
HORTICULTURE
PLANT
IDENTIFICATION
FAREWELL
Tuesday 4th
June
Friday 7th
June
10.30am
Tuesday
11th June
17th to 21st
June
Wednesday
19th June
1.30pm
12th July
TBC
Tuesday
23rd July
Tuesday
13th August
Tuesday 6th
August
19th to 23rd
August
Tuesday
3rd
September
2013
Tuesday
10th
September
1.30pm
Friday 13th
September
12pm
11am to
12pm
All week
10am to
4pm
1.30pm
10.30am
to 1pm
All week
10.30am
to 1pm
1.30pm
Euphorbias –
training session
Delivery of
Friends’ Tour –
Hardy trainee
TBC
Timothy Walker
Arboretum
placement
Meadow Plant
Identification
Course
Angiosperms Part
2 (meadow flora)
Glasshouse Pests
& Biocontrols
TBC
Ben Jones
Research at the
Botanic Garden
Arboretum
placement
Lawn Care
Alison Foster
Plant Family test
(ID plants to
family and
genera if
possible, keys
may be used)
Trainee
Presentations (as
part of
September staff
meeting)
Tom Price
Swap Dates:
Placement
Placement
Placement
Placement
One: September 17th to Christmas
Two: January 2nd to March 29th
Three: April 1st to 28th June
Four: July 1st to September 13th
Activities to be scheduled during Arboretum placements:
Chainsaw awareness
Tractor driving
Climbing
n/a
Tom Price
Timothy Walker
Ben Jones
Kate Pritchard
Ben Jones
Rob Hotchen
The trainees
Tree surveys
Tree safety
Tree management
Formative Pruning & Target pruning
Tree planting