Year 4

Our Local Area

Year 4 went on a sunny field trip around the local area exploring the history of the area surrounding our school. We walked past North Middlesex General Hospital and discovered that during Victorian times it served as a workhouse, where the poor were put to work. Did you know that during the first world war the hospital was converted into a wartime hospital?

The pictures of us are outside Millfield House, a Grade II listed building on Silver Street. As you can see, the sun was blazing!

We also found out that Angel Place was named after, the now demolished Angel public house, which was knocked down so that the A406 could be widened.  Mrs Williams, Mrs Wooderson, Mr Hannam and Coach Alfred found this very confusing but we explained to them it needed to be made wider to accommodate the increasing traffic flow!

Finally, we discovered that John Gilpin was a man who had a statue named after him for twice riding past his final destination. We queried if this was a legitimate reason for a statue considering how much Mr Hannam tells us off when we forget to underline our date. We should all have statues after us in the playground at this rate!

Year 4 – Autumn 1 – Local area

Waste Warriors

This week’s fun!