East Bergholt: Thatching lessons for youngsters (From Gazette)

East Bergholt: Thatching lessons for youngsters

9:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in

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YOUNGSTERS stepped back in time to learn the traditional skill of thatching this week.

Pupils at East Bergholt Primary got the chance to try their hand at straw thatching as part of a skills booklet they are creating.

Alison Cole, deputy head at the school, said the children have been researching traditional skills to create a book.

“We were trying to link work on our outside learning area with working with our school in Uganda.

“Children have been putting a book together from all the skills they have been learning.

“This was the first demonstration.”

Richard King from the Apricot Centre in Dedham spent time creating a thacthed roof with small groups of children.

He then put it to the test by spraying water on the thatching with a watering can to see if it leaked.

“The children have been loving it,” added Mrs Cole.

“You can’t learnt that type of thing looking in a book, you have to do it.”

Pupils are soon set to have a milking and cheese making workshop as well as learning how to knitt.

The booklet is set to be completed in April.