Year 7B exploring Bewdley Museum and Severn Valley Train Station

 

• The pupils enjoyed looking around a variety of historic artifacts in Bewdley Museum where they saw old models of wooden buildings, what type of clothes people use to wear if they were classed as royalty, how people use to sign themselves in for work by using their badge to scan a clock which would record the time they arrived as well as standing to watch the operated movements of a workers machine. The pupils also showed an interest in exploring the findings of the stones that people years ago would use to build the structure of their houses and manufacture buildings. They also enjoyed working in a pair to figure out how the puzzle pieces fitted together to create a picture of an old red fire engine. Continuing to walk one of the pupils saw a pile of black blocks and enjoyed building their own building as they demonstrated to their peer "this is the building from minecraft". 

• After the museum the pupils went to an ice cream shop where they chose what flavour ice cream they would like by visually seeing the flavours displayed in two freezer tubs. One of the pupils talked about the experience saying "I liked watching as the lady scooped up the ice cream and put it into the cone" when another pupil spoke about their favourite part of the ice cream saying "I just like to eat my ice cream really quickly so it's all gone". We then walked towards the river and sat on the steps as a class while the pupils showed their interest in eating the ice creams out of a cone or in a small tub as one pupil said "I have a really tiny spoon with mine". 
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Next we went to explore the Severn Valley railway station where the pupils explored the environment by walking along the tracks as they talked about how the trains from the older times look different to how they look now. The pupils showed an interest in watching the trains arrive into the station by sitting on the platform. One of the pupils had a conversation with a train member about where the trains last stop was and showed an interest in learning further with developing their understanding with how long the trains have been running for and how far of a distance do they travel such as "do these trains go to different countries like Russia or Germany".