Year 3 children from Icknield Walk First School immersed themselves into history at their recent school visit to Celtic Harmony in Brickendon.
The Celtic Harmony Camp is the UK’s largest reconstructed Iron Age settlement and has provided outdoor heritage education for 25 years.
Led by costumed educators, the pupils experienced first-hand what life was like in Iron Age Britain.
Pupils explored the thatched roundhouses and native woodland and engaged in many practical activities from grounding wheat for bread, making soup, weaving on a loom, and participating in a trading activity.
One child said, ‘My favourite part of the day was when the tribe leader was telling a story, and he turned the fire blue’. Another child said, ‘My favourite part of the day was when we were dying bracelets, and the leader told us how they made blue dye in the Iron Age’.
It was a fantastic day enjoyed by all.
Icknield Walk First School – Poplar Drive, Royston SG8 7EZ – www.icknieldwalk.herts.sch.uk
