
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