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Salisbury Cathedral pupils
view the body
Television’s Time Team had been digging near the cathedral and the
rumour that they had unearthed a body, possibly that of a bishop, as well
as the old bell tower, had to be investigated by Salisbury Cathedral
School’s Year 7 pupils. Keen to see what Tony Robinson looked like, they
gathered at the scene. Peering into the trenches they saw the four-metre
thick walls of the old bell tower, a doorway, a spiral staircase, a huge
central pillar, the walls of a pub and brewery, all just inches below the
grass.
In trench two they saw brown sticks and a lump of brown stone
before realising it was a complete human skeleton, an adult male. To
finish they were allowed to handle some of the finds, including painted
tiles, clay pipes and an assortment of human bones. And what does Tony
Robinson really look like? Well, just like Tony Robinson on television,
only life-sized.
Rookwood pupils spend a
day in the Iron Age
Year 4 pupils from Rookwood School, Andover,
enjoyed stepping back in time to the Iron Age
when they visited Butser Ancient Farm near
Petersfield. Butser is a replica of a farm that
would have existed around 300BC, complete
with structures, animals and crops.
Pupils experienced life in a Celtic
roundhouse and a Roman villa, and tried their
hand at a variety of tasks including wool
spinning, chalk carving and making a mosaic,
and enjoyed looking for ancient relics. ‘Butser
Farm is a wonderful place for the children to
learn about the Iron Age,’ says Year 4 class
teacher Mr Payne. ‘It really brought history
alive as pupils discovered just how different the
era was to the way we live our lives today.’
Former pupils return to
Portsmouth High School
In November, former Portsmouth High School pupils Fleur and Abi
Emery returned to school to launch enterprise week and tell the school
about their company Team Grasshopper and their delicious porridge, now
available in Waitrose. Enterprise week, which ran from 17 – 23
November, is a national celebration of enterprise with thousands of events
and activities across the UK. Last year more than half a million people
took part.
This year was the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship week, which
aims to unleash young people’s enterprising ideas to address some of
society’s biggest issues, from poverty reduction to climate change. With
more than 60 other countries taking part, Portsmouth High School joined
thousands of organisations across the world in inspiring young people to
develop their ideas on a global scale.
Fleur and Abi’s business has flourished and they won the Chamber of
Commerce, Mentor Magic competition on 13 November. They are
running two competitions for pupils: one involves pupils designing a new
page for the Grasshopper website, the other sets the challenge of putting
together a business plan for a new product to sell during the summer.
They also held a competition for girls in the junior department.
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