This week, a selection of children from Year 1 to Year 6 have visited a Willmott Dixon building site to learn about safety and make links with their ‘Worlds Largest Lesson’ whole school project.
Willmott Dixon were the building company who built Countess way so it was nice for the children to meet them again and chat about how their school was built.
Whilst on the trip, the children learnt about the importance of safety and the dangers of being on a building site when you haven’t had permission to be there – this is exceptionally important for us at the moment, with there being so many building sites around our two school sites.
The trip also linked to the children’s learning in school –
Year 1 and 2 looked at plans of the building site and thought about where the best locations would be for plants and veg gardens.
Year 3 and 4 talked about the importance of creating a detailed design before actually going ahead and building. They also talked about the need for the work to be redrafted and checked to ensure it had been carried out to a high standard.
Year 5 and 6 looked at plans of the site and the local area and thought about the safest walking and cycling routes around the area.
We would like to thank Willmott Dixon for the effort they put in to making our trips very successful and we look forward to re visiting the site in a few months to see how it has changed over time.
Willmott Dixon said they were very impressed with the fantastic questions that the children asked whilst they were visiting the site. They even offered one of our Year 4’s a job in the future!!!
