making a hut at Tiddesley Woods

The pupils showed an interest in collecting sticks, logs, leaves and grass to make their own hut. The pupils listened well to the Year 11 pupil who instructed the whole activity and had knowledge of what steps to take to create the hut. The Year 11 pupil talked about their experiences of making huts in Outdoor Education when they were the age of Year 7B. The pupils enjoyed making different parts of the hut such as base, walls and roof. The pupils enjoyed learning which sticks and logs are stable and which ones aren't and what thickness of each log should be. They then tested out what they had learnt by banging the log up against a tree to see how strong it was. After the pupils showed an interest in playing a few games of tracker.