Bush Craft Adventures for Children of Key Workers

The JTYAF funded an exciting outdoor education experience during the Covid closure, for 120 pupils at St Michael’s Middle School. The pupils were children of key workers, or from vulnerable backgrounds, or not supported with home learning. Two staff members from Leeson House, provided four fabulous days of Covid friendly outdoor education. Despite the arctic weather, the fire was lit throughout the morning, and the children enjoyed learning bush craft skills, fire lighting using a flint and steel,  and the older children had additional sessions on climate change.  The school’s extensive mature grounds provided the perfect location for these activities and the students hope to build on the climate change calculations and carbon energy work in the summer term.