The pupils walked along the Worcester canal taking it in turns to use a picker to grab and pick up litter of bottles or packets of food and put it into a rubbish bag. All of the pupils had a go at being able to achieve the starting point for the first stage of their DoE bronze award.
After the pupils had finished picking up as much litter as they could to fill their rubbish bag half way they continued to walk talking about the sights they could see such as one pupil said "can I go in and catch a duck". Another pupil had a discussion about how much they and a staff member thought the flats would cost if someone went to buy one and why there was a building with bars across the windows. We talked about how maybe the building was a car park for the flats at the very top as a saw a door which we thought could lead to stairs or a lift.
Halfway along the canal we saw a boat stand still waiting for the gate to open so they could get through. The people kindly told us where they had travelled too previously and asked if the pupils would like to push the gate forward to support it opening which a small group of pupils worked together to push it all the way to the other end of the gate pathway. We continued to walk further and as we got to the end of the canal we turned back round to the minibus where we saw a man on another water boat with glitter glasses on top. The pupils listened when the man talked about how he sells the glitter glasses for birthdays and weddings and how he has been living and travelling to various places along the canals for many years.
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