This week, Year 3 went to Gunnersbury Park Museum to take part in a ‘Surviving the Stone Age’ workshop to tie in with our Ancient Britain topic this term.
It was quite a long journey to Gunnersbury Park but it was well worth it. We had some time on arrival to explore the museum and starting from the room devoted to fashion, we set out on a hunt for stone age artefacts. In one of the rooms on the ground floor, we found stone age spear heads, axe heads and various tools which have been found in the area.
The workshop began with further exploration of stone age artefacts. We got to touch a woolly mammoth’s tooth found locally so is proof that woolly mammoths roamed the area we live in today!
We then were taken back in time and guided outside into the park, where we were each given our own animal skin. Our first job as hunter gatherers was to hunt a wild boar. We were given some spears made to resemble what a stone age spear probably looked like, and we threw them at a wild boar (well, an image of a wild boar). We can all agree that it was easier for us than our ancestors because this boar couldn’t move!
After taking great satisfaction in hunting our imaginary dinner, we took large branches and sticks along with our animal skins and used them to create a temporary shelter because that’s how people would have sheltered from the elements in the Mesolithic era. Fast forwarding into the Neolithic era, we then practised filling the gaps in a straw roof with wattle and daub because that’s how people built the first permanent homes when farming was discovered.
It was an excellent journey back in time to life in Ancient Britain and we can each be proud to say that we survived the Stone Age!
This was a fun experience in Gunnersbury the fashion gallery was so fun
It was so fun to go on the tube. I liked when we got to dress up in the museum.It was really fun.
I really enjoyed this because in our workshop we got to learn lots of things about how they made things to protect themselves with.It was really fun making shelters with sticks and animals skins.It would be quite hard to live in the Stone Age.
I loved the trip and I want to learn more.
I had lots of fun and we made our own fort out of sticks
I loved this trip it was really fun with my partner and I had a very good time with my whole class and my teachers
I love the putting the clay on the fence. it was used to cover the gaps. it was so fun.
Wow Year 3!!! I remember doing that myself I had a great time did you?
It was so fun to go on the tube. I liked when we got to dress up in the museum.