Quartz Class trip to Pitt Rivers

Lesson: History

Class: Year 4/5: Quartz Year: 2024 - 2025

What a fascinating day we had at the Pitt Rivers Museum!

After a fun journey on the coach to Oxford, we spent time exploring the Museum of Natural History where we saw a dodo skeleton, a piece of quartz the size of a watermelon and the bones of a T-Rex. Then, we had our packed lunches before entering into the dark and mysterious world of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Here we took park in a workshop and tour of the Benin and Africa collections. We were asked to find symbols of the Oba's power which included crocodiles, leopards, weapons and thrones. The Benin bronzes, Oba heads and the history of the collection will go onto inspire our topic learning for the rest of the term.