Hiring Fair

To begin our new school year the whole school joined together in our Take One Picture project. Work across the school, in all areas of the curriculum stemmed from a painting in Axbridge Museum called The Hiring Fair.

The children loved the project and suggested we had our own hiring fair day to bring together everything we had learnt. We all came to school dressed as people from the 1700s. The children experienced school as it might have been in Georgian times.

	The girls in Class 2 learned to sew while the boys learnt wood work skills.
Children in Class 1 learnt to write on chalk boards.
	Miss Davidson took the girls to the hall to learn more about being a girl at this time.
At Mr Cavill’s tavern the children used their hard earned farthing to buy mead.
	Class 4 made bread for Mrs Weston to sell to the children for a halfpenny in her baker shop.


During the hiring fair all the children practised juggling.

The boys in Class 2 learnt wood work skills.

Mr Page, from Axbridge Museum, joined us to tell the children more about the hiring fair.

Some of the children were hired as milkmaids or stable boys to work in Miss Davidson’s house.

Class 2 learnt to play some traditional 18^th Century games.