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".
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

walk around Bewdley Centre with Year 9

The pupils walked along Bewdley river looking and talking about the sights they could see such as "look there are swans they sound like penguins" and "the river looks really high, I couldn't swim that, it is too deep". The pupils then went to the museum where one of the pupils enjoyed talking about all of the equipment and machinery that were used many, many years ago and what they were used for like "this is a water engine that used to process hot water and deliver the supplies to people". The pupil also enjoyed exploring the variety of resources to make their own arch and puzzle that looked just like the water engine. The pupils then enjoyed going for a walk around Bewdley centre as we talked about how the buildings look different to now a days and what sweet shops used to look like and how the sweets are so different and after had the chance to taste the different flavoured and shape sweets.    

walk around Bewdley Museum and around the town centre with Year 10

The pupils showed an interest in looking at and taking part in a variety of old century memorabilia which included talking about what groceries they used to shop for and how it is so different to this year's time. The pupils enjoyed listening as the teacher explained to them about various equipment's that people used to use to create thread and how, and what machinery, steam would have been transported. The pupils enjoyed using different resources like a magnifying glass to see rocks and sands that people used to use to build houses and buildings. One of the pupils showed an interest in building shapes with the bricks saying "look I have built a arch". Another pupil put all of the pieces of a jig saw together to create the steam engine. As we were walking we saw a old telephone machine and talked about how people would put a ticket in a slot and that would record what time they had arrived at work. 

After the pupils walked along Bewdley town center's river looking at the swans and pretending to talk to them by making similar sounds. Two of the pupils noticed a bench and went and sat on it together looking at the view of the river.

Then we went to the sweet shop as the pupils shared between each other and the teachers by talking about what flavours they could taste and what shapes they were for example; oval, little drops and "this looks like a fish and this one is a dolphin". The pupils also described the colours of the sweet as "blue, green, red and white". We had some fish and chips and sat along the river interacting with the seagulls and pigeons giving them names such as "that is Bob because he bobs his head" as they started to move their head back and forward in the same motion. 

walk around Castle Morton Common

The pupils walked together in a group to reach the top of the hills. As we were walking the pupils talked about what views they could see such as "look down there, that is a big drop" and also enjoyed throwing sticks and stones down the various drops to see who could throw the furthest. When we got to the top of the big hill the pupils showed an interest in looking at the historic pillar of a person from 1784. 

WW2 Army Base Navigation

Classes have been navigating around a Nature Reserve that was once a US Army Camp in WW2. They had to use the map to get to each location.

Quote of the day: "Follow me everyone, I'll lead us to point 1"