Weald and Downland Museum

On Monday Year 1 visited the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum as part of our topic about materials and houses.

We set off in two coaches and were very excited when we went through the new tunnel at Hindhead. When we arrived at the Weald and Downland Museum it was a beautiful, sunny autumn day.


Some of us enjoyed a building blocks workshop where we looked at the materials used to make houses in the past and today. Others from our class found out more about all the jobs people had to do to look after their house a hundred years ago.


We looked at all the different houses and buildings at the museum. We saw inside the watermill and found out how wheat was ground to make flour.

Some of us saw inside a Victorian village school. It was tiny and it didn't have the computer or books and toys that we have today.