On 23 May, Year 6 headed  off with their teachers for Threlkeld, near Keswick in the beautiful Lake District National Park, to spend four nights at the Blencathra Field Study Centre.  Whilst there highlights for our students included taking part in orienteering, mammal trapping, bush craft and canoeing in addition to tasks and work associated with their study topic of Mountains and Rivers.  For their topic work, everyone enjoyed a half day river study working ‘welly deep’ in the great outdoors to measure the width, depth and flow of a local river at various points with an FSC tutor.

The weather wasn’t as kind as it could have been, particularly on our final hike over Latrigg into the town of Keswick, but we had an amazing week learning together, cementing friendships and developing our independence.