history - up close & personal

BSC Medieval Day

Marianne Hicks

Teacher - Humanities

An annual event, the BSC Medieval Day is a fabulous interactive learning day on the BSC calendar! Activities support the Year 8 History (Humanities) curriculum and bring history to life.

Travelling through a wrinkle in time, BSC hosts visitors from long ago who tell stories of Ye Olde world, show and explain battle gear and armour, exhibit medieval clothing, host games and play music enjoyed by those who lived in medieval times.

The interactive sessions were run by the wonderful presenters from History up Close, whose extensive knowledge and passion for medieval times was infectious. It was fabulous to see students enjoying the experience - bringing their knowledge out of the classroom and into conversation. Students interacted well with the visitors, asking interesting questions and invariably getting very interesting and sometimes surprising answers! It was good to see them take advantage of the opportunity to seek out knowledge independently of their teachers.

The feedback from all the students was overwhelmingly positive - another very successful BSC Medieval Day!

Christos Detsikas

Year 7

Medieval Day was great!

I learned what it meant to be in the position to attack and raid other countries.

Eve Johnson

Year 7

I think Medieval Day was fabulous because it let us experience what living in that time period would have been like and gave us an insight into what people wore, the music they listened to, how they fought battles and the games they played.