Tudor school residential trips
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We offer seasonally-appropriate Tudor rural living activities here on the farm. Days are spent doing what Tudor peasants did on farms in the late 1500s - managing the pigs and chickens, processing game, making pomanders, celebrating festivals such as Decorating the Plough or Wassailing, and feasting on food of the era. Students can learn to field walk or metal detect, identify and classify their archaeological finds, learn how to date hedges, ponds and buildings.
Wassailing preparations
Garlands
Herb potions
Table laying
Fieldwalking for artefacts
Categorising artefacts
Field-walking for artefacts
A Tudor ploughman's lunch
Studying old images
Lavenham
Felt-making
Lavenham Town Trail
'Washing' wool
Wassailing the fruit trees
Tudor dancing
Rabbits for the pot
Snuffing out the candles
Studying Tudor architecture
Cone-basket making
The Trouble with Henry play
Tudor dancing
Explaining Tudor table manners
Dating Tudor ponds
Tudor garlands in summer
Teacher inset day

