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• Nitwars at School

  Fri 26 Oct 2012
  Here's the local newspaper article: Children Battle Head Lice!

• 4H Gunpowder Mills Report

  Tue 23 Oct 2012

  On Tuesday 23rd October, all of Year 4 travelled by coach to the Royal Gunpowder Mills to learn about life in the Victorian Era which is our current topic.

   

  Firstly a member of staff called Claire took us to a room and taught us about holidays in the Victorian times... Doctors advised people to go to the seaside because they thought it was very good for them, but when the women walked along the pier, they fainted because of their corsets! Women sometimes had their rib bones taken out because it was very fashionable to be slim. Most women’s waists were 18-19cm wide.

   

  Teacups were popular souvenirs, and they had a picture of where they’ve been on the front. Inside, there was a shell type thing to keep your moustache dry. Some people paid a dipper to dip them underneath the water for 3 minutes. I couldn’t, could you? People who were ill drank sea water and milk together as a medicine.

   

  Poor and rich children had completely different toys. Football was played with a pig’s bladder in a leather case, if you dared to hit the ball with your head, you might get knocked out. Rich children had china dolls to put on their window sill and their hair was made out of people’s actual hair. Poor children had to use their imagination for most things.

   

  After that we had lunch, and then we went to the Victorian classrooms. The teachers were very strict, you always had to call your teacher Ma’am and you would line up separately before you would go in, smallest to tallest. Mrs Stern got caned for drawing on her blackboard, she didn’t actually do it, it was a different class that didn’t rub it off. Mr Trehern got caned for copying Josh.

   

  Finally we went to the factories (not real ones). There were 3 different jobs to do, there was shoe cleaning, putting matches into boxes and washing. The rules were very strict. If you didn’t work hard enough, you would lose a penny, if you argued, you would lose a penny and if you complained, you would lose a penny. The crazy girls won with 10 pennies (I was in that team and we won a pie!).

   

  I learnt lots of things in the classrooms and with the toys. My favourite bit was when we were in the classroom because I thought it was really fun, except for the cane (it’s not a very nice punishment). I would recommend it to you because it is a very fun way of learning, I enjoyed it so much!

   

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• New School Website Launched!

  Tue 02 Oct 2012
  Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!