Making the News 2

Class Four Become Historians May 20th 2010  Mr. Coulson the historian spent the day teaching Class 4 about the past of the fantastic village of Brook. To start off with they each got a clipboard and a booklet. When they were ready Class 4 all went out side and started our lesson.  Then Class 4 walked to the field outside the school and Mr. Coulson told them how to do a field sketch. Interesting fact: Red bricks have iron in whereas yellow don’t. Opposite the field was a house that Mr. Coulson told them some things about what it was made from and how it was made. There was a wall around the house that was made out of rag stone (a crumbly stone).  Then they went to the farm house that was made in the Middle Ages and Mr. Coulson told them some things about the farm. Interesting fact: You know when a house was made by the steepness of the roof. They kept on walking down Brook and went past the street Stone Bridge. Interesting fact: Stone Bridge is called Stone Bridge because there used to be a stone bridge over the Brook. Next they went to the Granary and Mr. Coulson told Class 4 some really interesting facts and then they moved on. Interesting fact: The Granary was called the Granary because it was used to keep grain in.  The second to last building they went to was the Brook Museum which was made out of timber.  Now last but not least they walked to the church. Interesting facts: The church was built on a flat ground but over the years the grounds got higher because of all the bodies being buried.  In the afternoon Mr. Coulson made a map out of toilet roll and put red, green, blue card and rope to show the time periods. The children put their information on the map. Then we investigated some artifacts.  27th May 2010  Mrs. Gauthier made a big time line and the children split into groups and put questions, facts and clues on the timeline.  10th June 2010  We looked at lots of photos of the school to find clues to see how the school has changed. The oldest photo was from 1895.  17th June 2010  Class 4 went to the Agricultural Museum. One person in each group had a camera to take pictures. Mrs. Gauthier, Mr. Wimsett and Dr. Hill from the museum took a group each and told us about the museum artifacts. We looked at equipment to see how some of the processes in agriculture have changed.  24th June 2010  Mrs. Gauthier put Class 4 into groups and the groups chose a topic to find information about. We used all the information we had found so far, including documents (census data and directories), maps, pictures, artifacts, memories, buildings, place names and writing by other people (secondary sources). Molly, William and Frankie wrote about the pictures class 4 had taken on the walk through Brook to put on a GPS map.  29th June 2010  This was our last day working on our project. Mr. Coulson dropped in to see how we were getting on and helped answer some of our questions. Finally we worked on our clues and wrote up explanations for our timeline to show that BROOK HAS CHANGED!