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Sunny Hill Pupils Take a Trip Back in Time

Sunny Hill Preparatory School, Bruton School for Girls, celebrated the past with themed lessons and outings during the school’s history week.

The girls and boys in the Reception Class visited Glastonbury Rural Life Museum and Year 2 visited Longleat, both to discover the world of the Victorians.

For the older children there were trips to the Celtic New Barn site near Dorchester, Barrington Court to investigate the Tudors and Radstock Museum to explore the Second World War and the experience of evacuees.

The week-long activities also included dressing up in Victorian and Celtic costume, baking Victoria sponge and apple cake, sampling a Tudor feast and performing songs and games from the past.

One of the highlights of the week was a talk by parents at the school, both historians, who looked at different types of historical sources with the pupils. Pupils then went on to look at everyday objects and consider what historians in the future will learn about us from such artefacts.

Head of Sunny Hill Preparatory School, Mrs Helen Snow, said ‘This was an action packed week full of rich and exciting curriculum experiences. History was brought to life in this cross curricular approach to the subject .The pupils were fully immersed in a trip back in time.’