I was lucky enough last week to be out of school looking after a group of 14 year old lads on an Army work experience week. I say lucky because Ofsted were in...
What a brilliant week! Being the outdoors sort that I am I was completely at home sat in the woods, navigating across open country etc while all our 'townie' kids were hopelessly lost without their X-Boxes.
The location was Beckingham camp in Lincolnshire and they have soooo much land there. I don't know if it is big or small for an army training camp but there were acres of Coniferous, Broad-leaf and mixed woodlands. Mile upon mile of fields -as well as 'ghost' farmhouses and firing ranges.
It would be fantastic to have Civvy access to this much woodland to go and play for a while.
One of the Soliders demonstrated use of a tarp and hexy stove and as I looked on the kids joked 'Sir's going to be buying one when he gets home' Oddly, they went quiet when I told them I already own both.
One of the lads, who'd probably never set foot outside of Bradford came to me with a puzzled look on his face brandishing a fir cone and asked what it was. Another boy told him it was an acorn...
Jay
What a brilliant week! Being the outdoors sort that I am I was completely at home sat in the woods, navigating across open country etc while all our 'townie' kids were hopelessly lost without their X-Boxes.
The location was Beckingham camp in Lincolnshire and they have soooo much land there. I don't know if it is big or small for an army training camp but there were acres of Coniferous, Broad-leaf and mixed woodlands. Mile upon mile of fields -as well as 'ghost' farmhouses and firing ranges.
It would be fantastic to have Civvy access to this much woodland to go and play for a while.
One of the Soliders demonstrated use of a tarp and hexy stove and as I looked on the kids joked 'Sir's going to be buying one when he gets home' Oddly, they went quiet when I told them I already own both.
One of the lads, who'd probably never set foot outside of Bradford came to me with a puzzled look on his face brandishing a fir cone and asked what it was. Another boy told him it was an acorn...
Jay