Year 5 had an amazing time at Forest School yesterday afternoon (despite all the mud!). Linking to our topic of World War II, children were tasked with building a shelter that could keep them safe during an air raid. Although some WWII shelters were built underground, children had to use their engineering skills, their teamwork skills AND their problem solving skills to design and then make a shelter from the materials available. Children worked really hard on carting their materials up the hill to the top of Forest School, tried hard to secure their tarpaulin coverings onto trees and were very creative with their material usage and the location of their shelters.
Next week's challenge will be to work in even larger groups to build even bigger shelters to try and house up to 6 people! It might be a tight squeeze but fingers crossed children are successful! Well done Year 5!
