Year 4 visit Gloucester Cathedral

On a relatively mild January afternoon, 45 young, noisy children were transported back in time to the Medieval period of Gloucester's history, to the Abbey of St Peter. There, they donned monastic habits and fell into an unearthly silence, as the spirit of the Benedictine monks took hold. As they were led around the cloisters, the everyday lives of the monks were retold, from the miming of food in the refectory, to the reason for hoods in the Necessarium! They saw the herb garden where the monks grew herbs for both medicinal and culinary purposes and sang a prayer in the main body of the Cathedral. We finished the afternoon with activities that the monks would have undertaken - playing 9 men morris, illuminating letters and writing with quills.
Now, if anyone knows of 45 black habits going spare, please contact the Y4 form staff who really enjoyed the peace and quiet they brought!

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