On Friday 4^th October, we went to Butser Ancient Farm, for our history topic. We are learning about the Stone Age period.  We were so excited! We arrived by minibus and met our guide for the day.  William shared lots of historical information about the Stone Ages. We got to walk around a Stone Age village and discovered that the houses were made from cow’s poo, clay and animal skin.  Our second activity was clay pottery.  We got to mush up a piece of clay and after removing the stones we got to make a model which we could take home. Our third activity was chalk carving. We smoothed the chalk with some flint and we then squeezed some leaves to colour the chalk green. After that, we used the sharp side of the flint to draw patterns.  Our fourth activity was to be archaeologists. We dug up a variety of different artefacts. Some of us found flint, some of us found massive pieces of metal, some of us even found skulls and bones.  We thoroughly enjoyed our school trip and would love to go back again.

Poppy and Jenny (Herons Class)