A Trip To STEAM in Swindon

Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 8:31am

On Wednesday Diamond Class and Ruby Class had a great trip to Steam in Swindon to start their new history topic all about "Railway Revolution". The other passengers were quite surprised to see so many children waiting on the platform at Stroud! After a quick trip on the train we arrived at Swindon railway station ready for the short walk to the museum. Our workshop with Gemma gave us the chance to find out why the advent of railways was such an important part of history. We loved dressing up as Isamard Kingdom Brunel, Daniel Gooch and other people from that era. The debate between those who wanted railways versus those who were not quite so keen gave us the chance to explore other people's points of view. In the end most of us were persuaded that the positives outweighed the negatives. After our yummy packed lunches we had lots of time to explore the hands on exhibits and we loved pressing buttons, driving a train, climbing under a train and making bridges. The highlight for many was pretending to have a sleep in a real railway carriage. Rain on the way back did not dampen our spirits and we were pleased to hear lots of compliments form the other passengers sharing our carriage back to Stroud !