Primary school pupils this week swapped the classroom for a construction site in Sutton Coldfield for a lesson in housebuilding and health and safety.
31 children from Maney Hill Primary School were invited to McCarthy Stone’s Retirement Living development, Powell House on Holland Road, which is currently being built. On the day, in Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlans, the pupils met site manager, Lexi Kirby, to see how new homes are built and ask any burning questions about the construction process.
Highlighting the importance of site safety, the Year Four class, who are aged between nine and ten-years-old, were given high-vis jackets and hard hats before watching the crane in action and hearing how it is used on-site. They were also given a demo on bricklaying and even had the chance to try it out for themselves.
To cement their legacy as part of the construction of Powell House, each the children from Maney Hill Primary School brought a drawing or photo of the things they love in 2024 to place into a time capsule that has now been buried in the area of the building site that will become the garden of the development. It will be opened in 20 years’ time.
