This week, a group of our Year 9 and 10 students got the opportunity to visit Westminster Archives as part of a research day organised by our Librarian, Mrs. Swan.
Here they were lucky enough to read the original minute books of The Grey Coat Hospital from 1863-1885 for themselves. We also had great fun looking into the student's behaviour as recorded in the 1850s reports and admiring the dramatic penmanship of the 1780s.
After returning from the archives, the students researched Victorian life using library resources and learnt about what schools were like for children at that time.
The afternoon was then spent researching the lives of 19th century Grey Coat students using Ancestry and working on some creative writing pieces featuring the former students - which we look forward to sharing very soon!
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