Tree huggers!

Today and tomorrow are 'enrichment days' at my school, when the students do a range of different activities instead of their normal lessons.

Each year group does something based on their current stage at school. Year 10 had a sort of 'careers fair', with people in all sorts of jobs coming in to talk to them, and our Year 9s had humanities-based sessions, linked to whether they'd chosen to do History, Geography or RE at GCSE next year.

My group of budding geographers did an environmental quality investigation, comparing our village's large green area with the school site, which a) got them outside, off their phones and looking at the world around them, b) was a great taste of what they will do for their GCSE coursework, and c) enabled us to all pop into the Co-op for ice cream. It was so brilliant to finally be allowed to do this sort of thing again and, as I always say, when you go on a geography field trip, you actually go to a field! 

It was great fun but, as usual, I shall spend this evening trying to unravel the tape measures. The students are shown exactly how to use them, exactly how to wind them back up properly and are told they will have detention for life if they muck them up. No idea how they still always manage to get them in such a mess!