Year 2's Trip to Beamish

On Thursday KS1 took a trip to Beamish to learn all about George Stephenson and the railways!
We had a wonderful time! Here is a quick look at our activities throughout the day...


Firstly, we went to the Wagon Way and looked at the Victorian steam locomotives! We learned some new words to describe the different parts of the trains including 'the chimney', 'the firebox', 'the boiler' and 'the pistons'. We also learned that railway tracks used to be made of wood, but when the larger steam locomotives were invented they were too heavy so they changed the wood for metal instead! Year 2 had so many great questions to ask!

When we had finished asking all of our questions we started our work shop! We became engineers for the morning and created our own clay model steam locomotives!

We are planning to paint our clay models next week in school!

Next we visited the Wagon Way house we saw how rich families lived in Victorian times!

After the Wagon Way we got the tram to the town! We loved sitting on the top deck and we loved the sweet shop even more!

The sweet shop made us hungry so we stopped for lunch, then we visited the Pit Village. We visited the mines and saw the terrible conditions that some poor Victorians had to work in! Year 2 already knew that children worked in the mines from our Queen Victoria topic but we were shocked to learn that the youngest miner on record was only 4 years old! We decided that school was a better option!

Finally, before we headed back to school, we had just enough time to visit the Victorian School and stables! We even got to stroke the Shetland Pony!

What an excellent day!