Learners have had the MOST wonderful week of history learning.
On Monday we kicked off the week with a drama session with Louise from Red House Theatre. The session supported our history topic of Whitby now and then wonderfully. We used our imagination to visit Whitby in the past. Through movement, we turned ourselves into the steam train, the Abbey and we even became sellers in the old marketplace.
Back in the classroom, we used iPads to research how Whitby marketplace had changed overtime. We discovered that Elizabeth Botham had sold her bread from a basket in the marketplace before opening her first shop. We also found out that whale blubber had been sold to make oil. Most shockingly we learned that urine was sold at the marketplace, which was used as a cleaning and dyeing aid – we were certainly glad to live in Whitby ‘now’ rather than ‘then’.
On Wednesday we visited Whitby and were able to being all our learning to life. We visited Fortune’s Kipper shop, a shop that we had seen on Frank Meadow Sutcliffe’s photographs of old Whitby. We stopped at the marketplace and were able to use our imagination to become market traders again – this time in the actual same place. We spotted many Whitby Heritage Sculptures around the town, which gave us an insight into Whitby from the past – we particularly liked the ‘Herring Girls’ sculpture near the bandstand. We walked up to the park, where we visited Whitby Museum. The Museum was fascinating, we saw Frank Meadow Sutcliffe’s gallery of photos and delighted in seeing many local artefacts.
Learners class have had the MOST fabulous week and history this week has been awesome!
Learners love to learn 🙂
