On Monday, 20th January year 3 pupils from St. Mary’s visited Palace Green museum in Durham. J and C coaches took us there and our driver was very friendly. The purpose of our trip was to learn more about how life has changed since prehistoric times. We wanted to have the opportunity to explore real life artefacts in a museum and have a hands-on approach to history!
Our first activity involved us working in pairs to examine a range of objects from the Stone age, Bronze age and Iron age. We had to draw each object, try to guess what part of prehistory it was from, measure it and think about what it might have been used for. We found this very interesting!
Our second activity involved us being creative, as we had to imagine we could create our own Iron Age tribe. From this we then designed and made our own coin, based on something we might have been good at.
After lunch we went upstairs to the actual museum, which was amazing! There were lots of original objects from the different stages of Prehistory. We worked in groups to form a gallery trail of activities. Some of these involved finding out facts, while others involved drawing. We even got a little go at some simple weaving, which was fun!
We had an amazing day and learnt so many new facts that will help us in our topic work over the next few weeks. We would recommend Palace Green museum to any primary school children who are currently learning about how life has changed since Prehistoric times!
Written by year 3 pupils from St. Mary’s primary.
