Year 3 trip to Valence House
Year 3 had a lovely trip to Valence House today, in which they travelled back in time to the Stone Age. They learned how Stone Age children would have made fire, created string from deer tendons to make clothes, and ground down grains to make flour. The children also visited the museum, where they was a recreation of a Bronze Age burial site and saw the Dagenham Idol, which was found in Salinas Lane in Dagenham in 1922. The wooden figure has been carbon dated to around 2250BC and is one of the oldest human representations found in England. After a quick lunch and a run around, the children tried their hand at making clay pots in the style of the Bronze Age Beaker People. It was a fantastic day, made possible by the great staff at Valence House and our fantastic parent helpers!
