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Year 5 had a brilliant time at Beamish last week, dress up as World War 2 evacuees, we headed over to Beamish to see what being an evacuee would have been like.
We had a tour of the farm, and meet the animals that we would be looking after if the farmer decided to keep us. We even helped out and gave the chickens some breakfast, there was even a baby chick running around the farmyard!
After that, we headed inside to do different tasks. We had to make our own straw matresses if we were going to stay, it was extremely messing (most of us were covered in straw by the end, even Miss Howson!) and it was 3 to a bed!!!
We also had to make some butter and cottage cheese...the old fashioned way! We had to keep stirring the cream to make it go thick, and squeeze lots of lemons!
And we had to make sure that we taped the windows with masking tape so they didn't shatter! Then we had to cover our torches with tissue paper so that German bombers couldn't see us in the 'Blackout'! Then we wrote a postcard home to tell them that we were safe!
After all that we were exhausted! But we really experienced what life would have been like in as an evacuee. We had a well deserved picnic lunch, then headed in the Town to see what else we could discover. We split into groups, some of us went around the shops and saw the mechanics and printers hard at work. The other group went to the sweet shop (where else?) and then they were lucky enough to see some sweets being made the old fashioned way!
To finish off a fabulous day, we headed over to the Victorian fairground and had a ride on the carousel! It was a fantastic trip and the children were an absolute credit to the school with their behaviour and attitude!
Well done Year 5 on another great trip!
Miss Howson