This week saw no fewer than four top quality out-of-school experiences for Year 5 in North Yorkshire - a history study visit to Eden Camp, a geography field trip to the coast around Robin Hood's Bay, an English curriculum walking tour of Whitby, and a water safety workshop with the RNLI.

      Eden Camp is a modern history museum, housed in a former prisoner of war camp.  Here, the girls consolidated last term’s WW2 topic with a recap of the roles of women on the home front, and the experiences of families affected by bombing, rationing and evacuation.

      As well as developing their OS map reading skills, the girls’ current geography topic involves a study of how bays and headlands erode over time, and the nature of coastal defences.  The shore along the Cleveland Way coastal path provided examples of land slips and coastal defences recently studied in class, and an opportunity to navigate a walking route using map reading skills learnt in school - with the added bonuses of rock pooling and fossil hunting!

      The final morning, in Whitby, had equally important learning angles.  Firstly, the girls' current English texts  - an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Room 13 by Robert Swindells and Evie's War by Holly Webb - are set in the town, and seeing the settings described in the books will support their upcoming reading and writing tasks.  Secondly, the girls have been learning about the work of the RNLI, so this was a chance for them to visit a working lifeboat station and see artefacts from the wreck of the SS Rohilla, the sinking of which features in Evie's War.

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