Thameside Primary School is a state school with 300 pupils from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds. 30% of the pupils use English as their second language and 31 different languages are spoken within the school. One of the parents, Mrs. Katja Bailey, a friend of Yoriko Miyajima from the Kaki Tree Project head office has two children who attend the school. She has introduced the Project to the school principal, and the principal applied to plant the tree.
Prior to the tree planting ceremony, workshops were held on 12 and 13 March. The Parent Forum at the school is a very active parent association, and many creative parents take part in it. These parents mainly ran and conducted the workshops. Children made dolls from cloth and laces, padded (raised) cloth pictures of plants, and big leaves with colored paper during the workshops. Children also had a homework to make a drawing/craft of a kaki tree.
They displayed those works of art in the gym later, and many parents and neighbors visited to see them.
They also made sweets.
Yoriko Miyajima visited the school on 6 April, ten days after the planting and took the photo of the kaki tree.
