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Beamish!

On the 22nd June 2009 year 5 were transported to another time- The Victorian era!
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Once there we decided to try out the local transport- a Tram. We visited local shops around the area, such as a sweet shop, a Dentists and even a Barlcays bank.
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After considering what to spend our hard earned shillings on, we headed for our Victorian lesson, at the old school house. We took part in a real lesson, including times tables, handwriting and calculating change from pennies and shillings. We had to create a boys line and a girls one, and sit up straight at all times. The teachers were very strict in those days and you even had to stand up to answer questions.
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After our lesson we had lunch, then headed for the Colliery, where coal was collected from mines, ready to be transported around Great Britian on amazing steam trains.

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Some of us even visited a Victorian farm.

When we had explored enough, we headed back to 2009 and Harlow Green Community Primary school.

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