What an exciting day! The Stone Age Day started with the discovery of fire in the Copse. To experience what life would have been like for nomadic people in the Early Palaeolithic period the children had to try and find food, water and shelter to survive. Some children made a shelter from large logs while others found berries and plants as a source of food. We then discussed how fire was first discovered through natural causes and how the prehistoric people started to produce their own fires. Before Miss Hatchman used her modern-day flint to start the fire, everyone tried to create their own spark using stones or rubbing sticks together. It was very tricky! While the fire was burning, a woolly mammoth was caught in a trap by Mrs Perry (no animals were harmed). The mammoth steak was cooked on the fire using a large stick with two prongs found by one of our hunter gatherers.

The children then went on to create shell necklaces before getting rather messy with mud and cave paintings. Some children opted to make paintbrushes from natural resources while others were happy to use their hands to paint onto trees. For the last activity the children moved into the Bronze Age. As part of our Geography this term, we have been discussing how people use the land differently over time. The settlements created by the children demonstrated that the nomadic lifestyle changed into farming, houses and small communities towards the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age.