Course description:

This half day course enables the children to develop map and compass skills in the vicinity of Danywenallt. Using teamwork skills, they will complete questions and challenges along a route to find the buried message from the past. This will help them find out about  the history of the area and how it has changed.

Main Activity: In small groups, the children will follow a route using compass bearings and paces. At each stopping point they will answer questions and complete challenges to find out about the past, how life has changed and how people have affected the environment. There is also an opportunity to visit the water treatment station en route and learn how water from the reservoir is made safe to drink. The hunt ends with the discovery of a time capsule containing messages and photos from the past. This provides evidence of life in the valley before and during the construction of the reservoir and how it affected the lives of the various people involved.