Form 3’s Trip to Barley Hall

Hot on the heels of Form4’s hugely successful visit, Form 3 enjoyed a day out at Barley Hall in York.  Naomi Cooke takes up the story:

“As soon as we go there we met four people dressed up as Tudor people.  It was really funny! They then told us to go inside Barley Hall, so we did.  We went into a really big hall – they told us it was called the Great Hall.  We saw that there were lots of clothes piled up on the benches; we all had to dress up in the clothes to look like Tudor children.  Afterwards, we got shown around by Master Paul and he taught us how to set a table for dinner in Tudor times.  We then made some soap out of sheep’s fat, water and herbs.  We had lunch in the Great Hall and then got taken to a different part of the Hall, this time by Master William.  In the school room we had a go at writing in Latin using quills and a pot of in. It was quite tricky to avoid getting blobs of ink on the page! We also did some maths using Latin numerals. That was our fantastic day at Barley Hall!”