SOME students in Launceston have been making the most of the autumn weather.

While many people across the country will be sad to see the summer wave goodbye once and for all in 2024, Year 1 children at St Stephen’s Community Academy in Launceston have been getting well and truly stuck into the wetter weather.

Students donned their special outdoor 'paddle suits'
Students donned their special outdoor 'paddle suits' (Submitted)

Pupils decided recently to go outside and enjoy the rain — not afraid of getting a little wet and messy — enjoying a puddle hunt, before heading to the field to zoom down the makeshift mud slide.

Children even enjoyed a make-shift mud slide
Children even enjoyed a make-shift mud slide (Submitted)

Maura Furber, headteacher at the school said: “We have to be ‘confident communicators’ as we listened to each other and took it in turns. We were also ‘amazing athletes,’ negotiating the space safely and confidently.”

Donning their outside waterproof suits, students then had fun rolling around on the wet grass, before a much-needed wash, getting splashed by the hose pipe to try and get some of the mud off.

Ms Furber continued: “A huge thank you to The Ernest Cook Trust for funding our very smart red puddle suits. We know they are going to be very well used indeed.”