On Tuesday 9th September 2025, Year 4 were transported back in time to the village of Escot (Wildwood Devon) 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 Saxon Runes 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 and in these times people threw poop at those in the stocks! A fact the children found very amusing!
They also went on a walk through the wild woods and learnt about foraging. They learnt about how the Anglo-Saxons treated their cuts, grazes and broken limbs with the plants they found around them like Comfrey. The children all tried Yarrow, a plant used to treat toothache and smelt the sweet smell of the lemon balm. They 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. But most fascinating of all was observing the four European brown bears who put on an amazing display of chase fighting, climbing and snoozing.
It was a long but thoroughly enjoyable day and the Bluecoat Anglo-Saxons did our school proud!
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