Y6 had a visitor to school to talk about Road Safety. The children recapped on what had been previously learnt at Crucial Crew and related this to moving on to secondary school.
The children learned about the App What3Words and now understand that this is a very useful app for finding a persons location in an emergency.
Continuing our research into St.Alban’s in the past, Year 3 children had a look at the old student roll of children attending St.Alban’s in the 1980’s. Interestingly, we found some familiar names!
Olly was very happy to find his Dad in the book. We also spotted Mrs Gurner (before she became a Gurner!) and Mrs Canadine’s two children.
We also looked at the booklet made for the opening of the school in 1965. In it, some children who attended St.Alban’s had sketched the school building. We decided to have a go at completing our own sketches of the school now!
To conclude our local history topic of “Schools in Wickersley”, Year 3 have been considering how St.Alban’s itself has changed since opening in 1965. As this was a change within living memory, children were able to interview our lovely teaching assistant Mrs Canadine who actually attended the school as a child in the 1960’s. They asked many questions like: “What were the school dinners like?”, “Were the teachers strict?” and “How was St.Alban’s different to what it is like now?”
We then had a look at the original plans for the school building and made comparisons to the building today. We went on a walk around the school noting down similarities and differences.
On our walk around school, we noticed the Lodge Bible winners poster. The lodge bible is a St.Alban’s tradition which has ran since 1966, whereby one Year 6 child per year is awarded a bible for their outstanding progress in Religious Education. The 1973 winner is actually a current member of staff- Mrs Brotherton! The tradition was stopped for a few years however, on becoming headteacher, Mrs Gurner reintroduced the Lodge Bible award. Ben and Jack were very happy to spot the names of their older siblings, who were previous winners.
This week at school has been local history week. The FS2 children have created a time capsule which cannot be opened until 2028 when the children will then be in Y6! The children have been so excited about this project and have brought in various items from home, such as favourite toys, food wrappers and photos amongst other things! We also have a flag to remember the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee and a covid mask as a reminder of the pandemic! We have also produced some writing in class which has been placed in inside the ‘capsule’. Well done FS2!!
Our walk focused around the quarrying heritage of Wickersley:
1 – We found the old grindstones at the roundabout.
2 – We discussed how The Masons Arms was named after the job of a Stone Mason
3 – We walked down Morthen Road looking at house built out of Sandstone
4 – We found several grindstones on houses and gates.
5 – We found the old toll booth on Bawtry road and discussed how some believe there was once a river taking stone to Bawtry which was a river port town
6 – We spotted lots of different houses and walls that are made of sandstone and some that are not.
7 – We found Quarry Field Lane and the houses that were build for the workers.
8 – We found Quarry Fields where the old quarries once were.
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- Grindstone
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- Masons Arms
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- Toll Booth
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- Sandstone House
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- Quarry Field Lane
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- Worker’s Houses
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On Monday, Year 5 visited Wickersley Wood. We used compasses to find directions to move around the cleared area.
We can now use the eight points of a compass (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) to find the points in between. (NNE etc) We have also developed rhymes to help us remember the four points. I know that my rhyme begins with Never, Ever,… although I sometimes use Never Eat Shredded Wheat to make sure I say North, East, South, West in a clockwise direction.
In school, we have used Digimap tools to find the area of the Wood and the distance tool to find the distance of our walk.
We now recognise many of the symbols on the map below.
Which symbols can you recognise? Why not use the key to help?
Today, we have found a little part of history within our school grounds!
This datestone was originally from the National school in Wickersley, which opened in 1855. The National School was located where the doctors is now.
We have been looking at old photographs, maps and reports to find out about life in the National school and how it compares with our school today.
We found out that life in the National School was very different. Attendance was really poor and so was the quality of education. Many parents chose to send their children to Whiston school instead! The school was overcrowded and did not even have running water.
