Staff and students at Jubilee School have been undertaking a range of angling activities in partnership with the Angling Trust REELS education programme.

With students learning a range of new skills, that include pole fishing, fly-tying, fly-casting and fly-fishing, also keeping safe around water, the natural world around the water, building social skills and building new friendships. 

Many of the students have been identified as having a range of social and emotional needs and some have been identified as having limited fine and or gross motor skills, so many of the activities undertaken help in this area of their development and learning.

Many of the young people at Jubilee school are now using some of these activities in school to help regulate when they become overwhelmed with some of their feelings.

These activities include going out to the field to practise fly casting.

YETI very kindly donated three 15Ltr Loadout boxes, one for each building in the school.

Each Loadout box is filled with Semperfli donated fly tying materials, which allows students to tie a fly for their next visit to the water, and hopefully their next catch.

We are looking to include other class room-based activities around angling over the coming months.

In the first week of the summer holidays, teacher Shane Davies undertook a sponsored walk of the South Downs Way, some 100 miles, ending each day with a visit to a local trout fishery, along with Spencer, a student who left Jubilee School this year.

During these visits Spencer and Shane spent time with other anglers fishing and tying flies, shaking a bucket fundraising for an event to be held later in the holidays.

So along with a 'Go Fund Me' page, we were able to raise £1100.00, which covered the cost of most of the event.