Year 5 Audley End Trip

Year 5 landed their Victorian history topic with an informative visit to Audley End House.  We took part in a workshop to learn about the lives of the servants who lived and worked at Audley End.  We were surprised to hear about the very early starts and the long days, but the meals did sound delicious!  We tried out some of the different roles that boys and girls would have done, including emptying the bed pans and setting the table for a special dinner.  Despite the rain, we managed a tour of the stable block and discovered all about the work done in the gardens to produce food for the mansion house.  Finally, we took a tour around the house itself, stopping to play with Victorian toys in the nursery and find out about the "mod cons" of the house, such as the coal gallery.