"We’re hooked!” Year 8 Spend the Day Finding Out Why Fishing is the Nation’s Favourite Pastime!

Hewett Academy's Year 8 students have swapped the classroom for the fishing lake as students from the City Centre school have taken their first steps in learning how to fish. 

Fishing is now the UK’s most popular participation sport and, thanks to a grant from the Friends of Hewett charity, dozens of students from Hewett are now seeing why! 

Just a short distance from Hewett is Shallowbrook Lakes where the students were expertly tutored and some of them turned out to be naturals.

Led by PE Teacher, Danny Self the students will each get two days' worth of tuition and the signs are that many will now take up the activity – proudly showing off their 'catch of the day'. 

Hewett’s Principal Antony Little said:

“One of our missions as a school is to help students have experiences that otherwise they would not. As a centrally located City school, not many of our students have ever been fishing but thanks to this generous grant, we have changed that. The enthusiasm and energy they showed at the lake made us all proud. You could say - they are hooked!

 

Fishing is an activity that requires great skill but also patience. Luckily, the Year 8 students who signed up didn’t flounder!”