From Ben Jones, aged 10.  St George's C.E  Primary School, Hyde Cheshire.

The Day we Stepped Back in Time

 Mark and Paul from Step Back in Time came to our school, St George's Primary School, in Hyde last month. They brought lots of nice and special things such as Tudor medicines, Tudor food and Tudor clothes to dress up in. They also brought different pieces of armour, a battle axe, a sword, a dagger, and a massive broadsword. We were allowed to hold the weapons and put the armour on.

  Dressing up in armour 

We dressed up as Tudor Kings, Queens, Servants and Children. They told us how the Tudors lived and played us Tudor music. They showed us Tudor dances that we joined in with and we pretended to execute Henry's wives. 

      

We tasted some Tudor food, and strange bread that was called rye bread. Paul told us how mothers put grass or worms in the bread when they were short of food. It was nice once you tasted it and I didn't have any worms in mine. We had chicken legs, Tudor cheese, duck eggs, quail eggs and some very, very sweet balls that were special Tudor sweets. We learnt that sugar cost more than good meat so only the very rich people had sweets after a meal.

We learned about all the fantastic medicines the Tudors used and tasted things that they used as medicine like honey and black treacle. Paul showed us some teeth that had been dipped in cola and not cleaned and he told us how people had teeth out in those days. He made us all promise to clean our teeth every night.

 
The day before they came to school we had all written Tudor letters and they helped us seal them with wax as the Tudors did. He also showed us how to make sparks with flint and we all had a go. We made loads of sparks.  

 

 

 

 

 

    

                  6 of the girls had matching dresses.                       

They did a brilliant dance about the way Henry VIII's six wives died.   

            It was called 'Divorced beheaded died, divorced, beheaded survived'.

We learned about how Tudors built with wood and how stonemasons used more arches than anything else for strength.  If you get an egg and squeeze it on its sides it will break but if you squeeze the pointed ends, that are like arches, you will not be able to break it.  

     

We did a very good quiz before home time and we were given golden coins at the end of the day for our good behaviour.
 
We all had a brilliant day, thank you very much Paul and Mark.
 
Ben Jones, aged 10