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 Robin Hood’s Bay, an English curriculum walking tour of Whitby, and a 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 beach at Boggle Hole, the Cleveland Way coastal path, and the village of Robin Hood’s Bay provided opportunities for them to see examples of land slips and sea walls up close, to visit a community under threat of coastal erosion, and to navigate a walking route using map reading skills learnt in class.

      The final morning, in Whitby, had equally important learning angles for our Year 5 girls.  Firstly, their 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 and this was an opportunity for them to visit a working lifeboat station, where Mrs Sail joined them to present the funds raised by this year's staff and pupil Sponsored Spell.

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