Year 8 Cool population have been taking part in the John Muir Award.

The week started with an introduction to the life and work of John Muir who was an 18th century, engineer, botanist and naturalist from Scotland who emigrated to America where his work led to the formation of the National Park Service. He is considered to be the founding father of ecology. The award consists of four sections where the students discover and explore wild areas then do something to help with conservation before sharing what they have done.

This week the students have taken part in a walk along the coast path where they exploded the mining heritage, navigated across the Penwith moors and investigated the issues facing the coastline of Cornwall. They have also learnt some first aid and camp craft skills. Students have a log book which they complete to share their experiences. Many of these skills learnt this week build towards the Duke of Edinburgh Award which they can start next year.