Class 6: Class 6 go to Llancaiach Fawr

On the 1st of December class 6 went to Llancaiach Fawr on a trip to learn about how Tudor and Stuarss lived. It took 40 minutes to get there by bus. The first room we visited was the servants eating room where we learnt about the food they ate which was mostly pottage and cheese. We also made plague bags because people of the Stuart times thought the plague was a disease in the air so if you made a plague bag which contained sage, lavender and mint it would cleanse the air around you, and prevent you having the plague.

The next room we visited was the servant kitchen the lady there picked Gethin to turn a spit at the front of the kitchen. We learnt that the turning boy would turn the spit for 12 hours and would earn half a penny a week but would have food also in the winter he would be able to sleep under the table by the fire. They called the spit the spit because the boy turning the spit would have oil spitting out at him and giving him burns all over his arms. He would be red hot all over one side of his face so he would get 8 pints of soft beer a day. The lady told us that men/boys earned more than women even though they done the same amount of work as the women. She said it was because men were higher up in the royal family tree.

Then we went upstairs into the more grand rooms. First we went to the court room/grand dining room the chairs were slanted on purpose so everyone could see the court case. He said they have food in the dining room and invite loads of people. He said once the king came for food but unfortunately there was thousand of the Kings guards to protect him so they to feed over 2,500 people and they only had 3 days.

The next room we went to was the the chamber room for the house owner and his wife the Colonel Pritchard had a servant bed underneath Kian went where Colonel Pritchard and his wife would sleep the Cole went on the servant bed Kian looked a lot more comfy than Cole. The man said that Colonel Pritchard would sleep sitting up so the angel of death wouldn't come and take his soul. The angel of death was thought of as a angel that would take people soul if the was laying down asleep and their mouth was frothing.

The next room we went to was Colonel Pritchards daughters chamber. The girls would sleep on a bed together. The mattress was made out of straw. They didn't have a servant bed underneath but they did have a place for a servant to sleep. The place was in a little room connected to the girls chamber room. So if one of the girls shouted out at night the servant would come instead of their mother. The man said that men were smarter than women so we took it to the test. We got a pot and ball. Kelly-Ann and Roman had 5 goes each and whoever gets the ball in first is smarter. It didn't work because both of them didn't get it in.

Next we went to the armoury room Ashley was picked to put on the armour. He put on a helmet a leather coat a chestplate and a wool hat under his helmet then he was given a gun. Mrs.Elphick and Mrs.Jones put on a helmet each and had a photo they looked really funny.

Next we had food the funniest part was when Kian had a packet of oreos and Mrs.Coates saw she went up to Kian and took the packet and ate one of the Oreos then gave the packet back to Kian.

Finally we wrote with quills the man showed told us how to make ink. Some people was really good at writing with the quill some was just making big blobs of ink on their sheet. Writing with a quill was really fun.

We did then go to the exhibition and the shop I bought a pot and ball Maddison bought a yellow quill with a golden tip.

Lastly we went on the bus and went back to the school.

That was year 6/5's class trip to Llanciach Fawr.

Amelia and Maddison