The town of Tewkesbury, in south west England, is built where two rivers meet. After weeks of heavy rain in the summer of 2007 the rivers flooded. Thousands of homes were ruined and water and electricity supplies cut off.

'When we got flooded my mum was pregnant at the time. We went to the council offices and slept there for a couple of days,' says Bradley, 10. We also had to go to my nan’s house and check she was ok. She’s got a dog but she couldn’t walk it.'

'I was shocked and frightened,' Bradley adds. 'My back garden was the worst. All the plants got washed away.'

'When I was flooded I had to move into my friend Jack’s house,' says Megan, 10. 'Me and my brother slept in Jack’s room.'

Bradley and Megan tell their classmates how the Tewkesbury flood affected them

Megan didn’t have to stay at her friend’s for long. But for nine months after the flood waters went down her family were living in a rented house, because their own house wasn’t ready to move back into.

People have even been living in caravans in their gardens because there are lots of homes to fix and not enough builders to go around. And it’s taken a while for some people's insurance companies to pay out to repair the damaged houses too.

Pupils' work on the floods, which they've put up in the school hall for everyone to see