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!