The novel which the children really enjoyed reading in class, and on which today's trip was based.
P7 dressed up for the occasion.
As did P6 children.
As well as some staff! Well done to Mrs McCrystall and Mrs Monaghan for getting into the spirit of the trip.
Tasting what soup would have been like from the soup kitchens of 1840's Ireland.
We learned about some of the food eaten by the people of Ireland at this time.
The children learned about cures and remedies, many of which are still in use in parts of Ireland to this day.
All the cures used ingredients which grew freely in rural Ireland.
On their route around the park, the children met a beggar woman, a realistic reminder of how desperate the famine times were.
The children visited the school room to find out what school was like in the 1840's. They don't look very enthusiastic here 🙈; there wasn't much active learning going on those times!
The teacher reminded them of how discipline was kept in schools in those times 😬
Before boarding the boat to the New World.
The children got to see what the journey would have been like on board the ‘Coffin Ships.'
It wasn't comfortable!
Arrival in America 🇺🇸 seeing what the inside of a general store would have been like. There would have been so much choice compared to what the Irish emigrants would have been used to at home.
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