Tuesday 17th September 2024 saw Year 4 transported back in time to the village of Edcot (Wildwoods, Escot) 930 AD under the reign of good King Athelstan. Our brave and intrepid Anglo-Saxons took things in their stride and took on all the tasks and activities offered to them. In the Anglo-Saxon village they were employed by the baker to mill the flour and make bread rolls in the clay oven. The woodturner showed them how to carve in old English the sign for ‘Great Torrington’ and ‘Bluecoat Primary’. The forger had them making a smart penannular brooch that Anglos-Saxons would have used to fix their capes/shawls for warmth.
Unfortunately, the stocks were well used with various rogues finding themselves ‘punished’ for stealing bread or chickens or eggs. Mrs Davenport thought that the rogues would be pelted with rotten food but was told by the Anglo-Saxon baker that no…in these times people threw poop at those in the stocks! A fact the children found very amusing!
We also went on a walk through the wild woods and learnt about foraging. We learnt about how the Anglo-Saxons treated their cuts, grazes and broken limbs with the plants they found around them like Comfrey. We all tried yarrow, a plant used to treat toothache and smelt the sweet smell of the lemon balm. We even put some of what we had learned later that day into practice, finding the correct leaves for treating stinging nettles!
Our intrepid Anglo-Saxon explorers had to keep their wits about them as they crept past eagle owls with claws that can crush bricks! They saw majestic wolves and watched wild boar sleeping in the sun and wallowing in the mud. Some even got to see the European brown bears. We may not have been brave hunters today but there was no shortage of bravery on the Wildwoods Drop Slide!
It was a long but thoroughly enjoyable day and the Bluecoat Anglo-Saxons did our school proud!
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