Thursday, 02 September 2010 Written by Pat Adamson

In their first project challenge year 7 went back in time to experience what it was like to live in an English village a thousand years ago. They were divided into three groups to experience cooking, sewing and building a wall.

In those days, most people were very poor and would only have one set of clothes to wear all the time so our first job was to make ourselves a medieval cowl, like a hoodie, which would keep our head and shoulders protected and warm.

The cookery group made a one pot meal made with whatever would have been available at the time – any vegetables, lots of barley to fill you up and, if you were lucky, even some meat occasionally!

Most people lived in a house with one room, sharing it with animals and a fire in the middle to cook on and keep you warm. The walls were made with sticks weaved together and mud to fill in the holes – this was called wattle and daub which Miss Carr’s group became very good at.

Year 7 came to the conclusion that life is definitely a lot easier now than it was then!

Friday, 23 November 2007 Written by Pat Midgley

On the 15th of November our class was visited by Deborah from Bailiffgate Museum in Alnwick. She came dressed as a poor Tudor woman and had Tudor clothes for us to try on.

We also used some artefacts as a prompt for drama –- although sometimes it was hard working out what our artefacts were! We thought the inkwell might be a chimney pot!

Later we made posies from ribbons, flowers and herbs. We played a Tudor board game, and wrote Tudor insults on parchment using quills and ink.

Hope you enjoy the pictures - you foul breathed maggot pies!!