Year 3 Dean Heritage Centre

Today, we visited The Dean Heritage Centre to help us understand how the way people live their lives has changed over time.
We had lots of fun doing Ma Meek's washing in the Victorian cottage, using the wash board and wooden dolly and had a good look around her kitchen, living room and bedrooms, noticing some interesting objects along the way!

We also developed our understanding of the life of a charcoal burner in the Forest of Dean and why they cooked the wood into charcoal.

Learning about the life of a child miner was also very interesting and made us realise that school is not such hard work after all!

 

Deer Facts

 As Part of our Forest Capers topic, Year 3 have been finding out all about the deer in our local woodland.

Exploring The Forest

As part of our Literacy work on familiar settings, Year 3 explored the local forest today. To help us develop words to describe our different senses we had fun walking through squelching mud, splashing through puddles, listening to the sounds of the forest and touching things that grow. 
Whilst we walked, we also had time to pick some delicious plump blackberries which we turned into scrumptious cakes ready for the Parents' tea and cake afternoon tomorrow. We hope you enjoy them!