Busy one this week, still using the train to get to Craig, when Craig arrived at the train station he said he had to pick something up from the post office, it turned out to be a TBS BOAR folding knife that he gave to me for the extra help I had given during this club, full review will be made once I've abused it for a while.
We had planned on doing navigation with the kids so after discussing specifics we collected the kit together and left, arriving early at the school to set up.
Once all the kids were here we talked about navigation, and different methods that could be used.
Then took them around the activities showing them a sun stick, with a marker on its shadow, then when we stopped off at this at the end, marked again at the next shadow placed your right foot on the first marker left on the second, this leaves you facing south(ish).
Next we took them to a giant circle explained that we were demonstrating a clock face and demonstrated the hour hand and the sun to give direction.
Then to a load of tin foil plates laid out as the big dipper star shape and explained how to find the north star.
Lastly we took them to the running track and worked out how many paces they each do in a hundred meters, then asked them to work out how many meters back to the playground where their parents collect them, they did very well with this, most getting within 20 metres.
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