2015/16 First Day of Term Last Day of Term

Monday 15th February 2016

Friday 18th March 2016

Summer

Term

Monday 4th April 2016 Friday 27th May 2016

Monday 2nd May 2016 is a Bank Holiday

Monday 6th June 2016 Friday 15th July 2016

WALES HIGH SCHOOL TERM DATES 2016/2017

2016/17

First Day of Term Last Day of Term

Autumn

Term

Monday 5th September 2016 (Staff only)

Tuesday 6th September 2016 (1st day for Students)

Friday 21st Oct 2016

Monday 31st October 2016

Friday 16th Dec 2016

18th and 21st November 2016 ‘school closure’ days

Spring

Term

Tuesday 3rd January 2017

Friday 17th Feb 2017

Monday 27th February 2017

Friday 7th April 2017

Summer

Term

Monday 24th April 2017

Friday 26th May 2017

Monday 1st May 2017 is a Bank Holiday

Monday 5th June 2017

Friday 21st July 2017

N.B. This schedule includes the 5 ‘school closure’ days to be added throughout the year.

Monday 5th September 2016, Friday 18th November 2016, Monday 21st November 2016

Monday 24th July 2017 and Tuesday 25th July 2017

WALES HIGH SCHOOL

MARCH 2016 NEWSLETTER

Students Progress with US Youth Soccer Programme - Levi Owen continues to make

progress with the United States Olympic Development Football Programme. In January, he was

selected for the High School boys squad which travelled to Lignano, Italy for a winter training

camp and followed this up by being selected for the Squad which met in Bitburg, Germany in

March. Whilst in Bitburg, Levi was vice-captain of the ODP team, made up of 15-18 year olds,

which lost narrowly to the Bitburg men’s squad, with the decisive goal being scored by an

ex-Bundesliga striker.

Levi (seen here in the yellow shirt with his team mates) received further good news in February

when he was awarded an extended schoolboy contract by Rotherham United. This will allow him

to train part time and play with the clubs Youth team, whilst continuing his studies at Wales High

school.

Headteacher’s Sixth Form Rugby Challenge 2016 - With mud up to their knees and

determination oozing from within all the players involved, the Headteacher’s Rugby match proved

to be one of the fiercest games of rugby seen

for many years. Crowds of people from all

years, staff, family and even ex-students

gathered, with full spirit, to witness

impressive tackles and impeccable teamwork

between the rivals of Lower Sixth Form and

Upper Sixth Form. The game eventually

resulted in a glorious victory for the Upper

Sixth, with credits to Kieron Greenwood and

Luke Hall, taking the score up to 12-0. Both

teams played incredibly well, building

immense suspense and sending the

spectators wild. Ross Bower, Captain of the

Lower Sixth Form, had a strong team with

evident training sessions having taken place

but after a neck and neck first half, it was Ben

Kaye and George Brooksbank’s team who

won the trophy, continuing the Upper Sixth

winning streak. Who will claim victory next

year?

Written by Jessica Canning 13.1

Golden Hour

Presents

It’s fantabulous !

There’s so many

activities to do

Blood, Guts

& Gore We love

1st aid

golden

hour

Would you know what to do in the event of a first aid emergency? These Y7s would..... They've

been enjoying learning how to deal with a range of first aid emergencies in their golden hour

lessons this year. As well as practising how to put someone into the recovery position and how to

perform CPR on someone who has stopped breathing, they've also had a lot of fun bandaging

each other up whilst practising how to deal with bleeding, burns and broken bones. As a treat, in

their final lesson they made fake wounds that looked so real, parents, staff and other students

genuinely thought that they were real injuries. Don't worry though - no Year 7s were injured for

real during Blood, Guts and Gore lessons!

World Book Day at Wales High School was the launch day for a variety of reading opportunities. The first celebration started in the morning with a Book Quiz in tutor time, followed by a 'Book Drop Book Swap' event in the library. Students donated books to the Swap Shop by popping along to the library, dropping and then swapping a book. "Having a love of reading is a school priority and an essential skill for life. When children can freely choose what they want to read, they will truly be reading for pleasure. This choice allows children to be enthusiastic about what they are reading, and in turn they will be engaged. The book swap has encouraged a real love for books and in turn a love of reading," said Mrs Taylor, Assistant Headteacher. Future events over the coming months will include, 'Reading With and Reading To', 'Ring and Read', and 'Read Aloud', which is an opportunity for staff to read pages from their favourite books to students at lunchtimes, something the staff are looking forward to.

U13 Girls Football - Our Y7 and Y8

footballers have played amazingly well

throughout the South Yorkshire cup. They

have been undefeated all season and

yesterday played in a tough final against

Horizon CC. Wales High School dominated

the 1st half leading 1-0. The opposition

stepped up the challenge and raised their

game to bring into a 2-2 draw at full time.

The girls were fantastic but unfortunately lost

out in the penalty shoot out.

They showed outstanding sportsmanship

and made Wales High school proud.

Safer Internet Day - Each year Wales High School supports Safer Internet Day in order to

promote the safe and responsible use of technology.

This year the theme was ‘Play your Part for a Better Internet’, offering the opportunity to focus on

both the creative and positive things that children and young people are doing online, as well as

the role that we all play in helping to create a better internet. With this mind, a competition was

held in which students across all year groups were invited to design a poster on this theme.

Isabel Toseland and Emma Dykes in Y7 were joint winners. Jessica Barber in Y7 was one of the

runners-up along with Sophie Attewell in Y9.

Professional Interview Evening - Our annual professional interview evening for Year 12 took place on March 9th, with over 40 interviewers from businesses in the local community coming to school to put students through their paces. Students prepared for the evening by preparing a CV and working with their tutors to look at typical interview questions. Each student had a 20 minute interview followed by 10 minutes of unbiased feedback on their interview technique and CV. The atmosphere in school as students were leaving their interviews was very positive, and feedback from the interviewees was excellent - some were even offered apprenticeships and training positions during the interview! For more information about professional interview evening, please see the website. To get involved as an interviewer please contact zj@waleshigh.com

WALES AND KIVETON COMMUNITY COMBINE TO SECURE SERVICES FOR FAMILIES

Following the announcement last year of the planned closures of several children’s centres

across Rotherham, the Headteacher of Wales High School, Mr. Pepe Di’Iasio, was not prepared

to see provision for the families of the local community suffer.

Collaborating with Judith Elstone, the Headteacher of Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School,

alongside the Kiveton and Wales Nursery, a partnership has been established to secure the

future of the Sue Walker Children’s Centre and ensure that the Centre continued to offer

vital services to families and young people across its community.

Headteacher Pepe Di’Iasio said “we are delighted to have brought partners from across our

community together to secure the future of the Sue Walker Centre”.

Pictured at the Sue Walker Centre are Headteachers Pepe Di’Iasio and Judith Elstone, Councillor

Dominic Beck, Community Governor at Wales High School, and representatives from Kiveton

and Wales Nursery who will be

joining forces to ensure that the Sue

Walker Children’s Centre not only

provides vital Sure Start provision

and health services for young

families in the community, but also

offers nursery provision for these

families over many years to come.

Councillor Beck said “I am very

pleased to have assisted in securing

the future of the Sue Walker

Children's Centre, a much valued

community facility, in partnership

with Wales High School, Kiveton

Park Meadows Junior School and

Kiveton and Wales Nursery. It is

important we protect the local

services we have in support of our

young people and future

generations, and I am delighted to

have been invited to chair the new

Partnership Board for the Centre”.

SUCCESSFUL SEASON FOR WALES CROSS COUNTRY SQUAD

The school cross country team enjoyed 6

races over a variety of courses in the Rother

Schools 2015/16 Cross Country League, this

culminated in the annual championships at

Herringthorpe and once again Wales

performed exceptionally well with 3 of our

Junior girls team taking the bronze, silver and

gold medals respectively – Ist Grace Harris

(Y9), 2nd Keiva Rennocks (Y9) and 3rd

Erin Lonsdale (Y9) and the rest of the junior

girls team ensuring that Wales took home the

Rotherham Schools Junior Girls team trophy.

Other notable results were: Millen Flanaghan taking the silver medal in the Y7 boys race and

Jacob Gratton taking the bronze in the Junior Boys race. Following the district championships

several of our runners were selected to represent Rotherham to compete against Barnsley,

Doncaster and Sheffield at the annual South Yorkshire Schools Cross Country Championships

which was held at Campsall Country Park in Doncaster at the end of January. 14 students were

selected to represent Rotherham from Wales – all the students ran well on a course that was

very heavy with mud underfoot! Good runs from Millen Flanaghan, Luke Ingersoll, Travis Massey

and Heather Armstrong (Y7), Keira Sampson (Y8), Erin Lonsdale (Y9), Emily Beck (Y10) but

exceptional performances from both Grace Harris and Keiva Rennocks who were both selected

to represent South Yorkshire Junior Girls team to compete in the English Schools Cross Country

Championships at Woollaton Park, Nottingham on Saturday 5 March. Both girls ran superbly in a

field of over 300+ runners from all over England. Bronte finished in the top 200 runners across

the country and Grace finished 26th. A fantastic achievement. Well done to both girls.

Year 7 Netball - The Year 7 Netball team had a fantastic performance at their recent

tournament. Winning 3 out of 4 matches, overall they finished 2nd which means they have

qualified for the Rotherham Schools Final Day to be held at Wickersley which will be on Saturday

12th March. Good Luck Girls!!!

Gymnastics - Wales High School Gym squad competed in the Rotherham schools Gymnastic floor competition at Wickersley in December. They performed outstandingly well to gain the highest marks of the day and qualify for a place at the South Yorkshire games. Alicia Jackson Y9, Sydney Stratford Y8, Sky Green Y8, Amelia Pullinger Y7, Tamia Siddall Y7 and Hatti Jackson Y7 represented Rotherham in the games last week at the EIS. They just missed out on the medals coming 4th overall. Well done ladies.

The Great Wales Bake Off - Year 7 students were invited to take part in an exciting competition this term - The Great Wales Bake off!! Based on the popular BBC TV show, pupils were first asked to complete a signature bake after school in the food rooms, their only instruction was to make a sponge cake of at least 2 layers, and have it cooked, filled and decorated in one and a quarter hours. Over 50 students applied, and Mrs Hemming and Mrs Brown were incredibly impressed with all the first round bakers, but particularly Reiss Askey in 7.5 who was awarded the star baker apron! Reiss baked a delicious lemon drizzle cake, with lemon curd and a refreshing lemon icing. 15 bakers were then asked to progress to the technical challenge. None were told what the challenge would be in advance so they were all surprised to find they had just one hour to make 6 perfectly equal chocolate éclairs! The students did not disappoint, and again the judges were very impressed with the technical ability shown. Rebecca Oates of 7.2 did exceptionally well, and was a clear winner of the second Star Baker apron. Next term, the remaining bakers chosen will compete for the title of Great Wales Bake Off Champion! Who will it be?

The Linacre Institute is a charity which helps state school sixth formers in Yorkshire

reach our most competitive universities. With a programme of academic interviews,

tutorials and residential experiences at Westminster School, London and Trinity

Hall, Cambridge the aim is to give our students the same chance of reaching the

most competitive universities as their counterparts at the best performing

independent schools.

So far, nineteen of the 22 Linacre students in 2015-16 have won offers from our dozen most competitive universities, including Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Edinburgh and Durham.

The rate of Oxbridge and Imperial offers (29%) was well above the national average of one success in five. Our students’ success rate so far with Oxbridge offers is 46% - similar to that of the hosts of our London residential, Westminster School, one of the world’s most academically successful independent schools, and of Eton.

Case study: Wales High School, Kiveton Park

Wales is a comprehensive in Kiveton Park, a small mining town between Rotherham and Worksop. Its colliery employed 1,000 people and closed in 1994. In their first year with Linacre the number of students going to Russell Group universities almost doubled, to 43%

“Our first involvement was the interview given in 2014 to 19 of our students. Ultimately six were successful, but we had an extremely marked and positive reaction from all 19. They felt it was an opportunity for them to challenge themselves as academics. All 19 are now at Russell Group institutions. The fact we had almost double the number achieving places at elite universities from previous years shows that the top students being more aspirational had a knock-on effect to other students. The success of the cohort who went to university in September 2015 is unprecedented at the school.

“Our involvement with Linacre has encouraged us to examine our own practices. The consciousness of our students has been raised. All target grades are now set at one grade above the national average. Our data shows that nearly all students are in line with their targets, which would suggest a more academic and aspirational ethos is becoming accepted as ‘the norm’.

“There has been something of a sea-change in attitude from staff, which filters through to students, about elite universities. We have a much more positive attitude towards these establishments and our students’ entitlement to attend the very best for their subject. This has very much come from the supportive attitude of Linacre mentors.

“One of the things that has impressed us most is that students have not felt pressurised to apply to Oxbridge. They have been empowered not to choose it if it is not right for them. They have seen other aspirational alternatives as a realistic goal, such as Imperial, King’s and Durham.

“When we first contemplated working with Linacre, I think it is safe to say that we had a narrow view of the impact it would have on a small group of elite students; we have, however, found that the benefits of the partnership extend far beyond our initial expectations and have had a genuine impact on the success of many of our students. We can’t recommend it highly enough.” Jude Cole (Linacre Co-ordinator) and Hayley Ludlam (Assistant Headteacher)

Movement Evening - On Wednesday evening over 100 students from Y7-13 participated in

our Annual Movement evening. The event showcased the wonderful work our students

have been doing both in their PE lessons and dance and gym clubs. The evening was a

great success and enjoyed by a record number of visitors.

Learning Support Cricket

The Learning Support cricket team has had yet another successful season and the outdoor

tournaments have not even begun! We are pleased to announce that the learning support side

made up of Key Stage 3 and 4 students finished joint first in the South Yorkshire Indoor Finals.

The team managed to win 3 games and narrowly lost out in another but still did enough to qualify

for the Yorkshire Indoor Cricket Final at Headingley Stadium. Well done to all those students

involved. We cannot wait for the summer tournaments.

Pictured are Olivia Lee, Shannon Carter, Stephen Clark, Luke Bellamy, Daniel Fisher and

Jack Dawtry

Sports Award Evening - Friday 30 September 2016!

Put this date in your diary. The PE Departments annual Sports Award Evening is going to be

bigger and better than before. With new awards for all Year groups; fantastic raffle prizes; disco

and food. Come along and celebrate. Tickets will be available from Friday 8th April.

B&E Valentines Market - The Rag Challenge is an event run in Year 12 at Wales High school. Each tutor group has an opportunity to set themselves up as a mini company - with a Managing Director at the helm, and other pupils within the company taking on roles such as Marketing Director, Production Director..... They create products and services which they sell throughout the academic year at scheduled markets. The Valentines Market was run Wednesday and Thursday lunchtime - and was a success. Stalls were selling sweets, chocolates, cupcakes, milkshakes and other Valentine themed products. All money raised goes to Bluebell Wood, and so far they have raised over £2000.

The experience of a former Wales High

School student:

Ashleigh Weir – Year 1 student takes

Footlights by storm

Ashleigh, now reading English at Cambridge, has won glowing reviews after becoming one of the few first-years ever to win a leading role in the Footlights – the starting place of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and dozens of other stars of show business. Reviewers called hers the “standout performance” as Maid Marian in the Footlights pantomime. Another wrote that: “The star of the show was without doubt Ashleigh Weir’s Maid Marian, a role made even more impressive considering this is her Cambridge debut. Her performance was hilarious, loveable and utterly believable… she stole the audiences’ hearts”.

Every year, Wales High School Maths teacher Dr Webdale brilliantly prepares our students of various ages for the individual and team maths challenges organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. Towards the end of 2015, four Sixth Form students, Faith Nagra, James Lonsdale, Ryan Fox and Sam Lorenz, performed so well at the regional finals in Sheffield that they earned a place in the prestigious National Finals in London. This is the first time that a group has reached this stage - an amazing achievement in itself.

For unforeseeable reasons we did not receive notification of the group's place in the finals until late in the day, leaving less than two weeks for the group to practise. The finals at the beginning of February were soon upon us. Despite a very early minibus departure from school, bad traffic led to a later than expected arrival at our 'out of the way' tube station, and we made it to register for the event with only ten minutes to spare! Unfazed, the students were soon busying themselves assembling their resources for the compulsory poster round. Before we knew it, the competition had started. Three rounds of varying formats saw the students puzzling away at numerous devilish questions as a full group or in pairs.

Our superb team toiled away and more than held their own against teams from the most prestigious and sought after schools in the country, including Eton and Westminster. I could not have been more thrilled with all four students' attitudes. The Y12 students have already set their sights on improving their standing at next year's finals!

All in all we had an excellent day and roll on next year!

National Senior Team Maths Challenge Finals - Royal Horticultural Halls, London Rugby - This term has seen another successful period for all of our Rugby teams registering impressive performances. A special mention to our Y9 boys who have not lost all season and were only knocked out of the Yorkshire Cup by the reigning champions due to being the home team in a drawn match.

The PE department is also proud to announce more representative honours and selections across the school years. Ellis Harrison recently had the honour of captaining the Yorkshire Under 15’s vs Cheshire and narrowly missed out in a 17-10 defeat. Both Ellis and Jack Baldry will play for Yorkshire Under 15’s vs Cheshire once again in the next fixture. Well done to both boys!

Last but not least! We have more boys and now girls representing the school in the Yorkshire Carnegie England Rugby Development Player Programme. Oliver Davies, Finley Williams and Covey Williams (Year 8) will join the ERDPP squad next month. Wales High school also has girls representation in the Yorkshire Girls ERDPP, the first of its kind in the country, both Lucy Cocking (Year 8) and Charlotte Gladwin (Year 9) recently got through after a successful trial. They will train with the squad made up of girls from across the whole county and meet once a month. Abby Pearson (Year 9) is also set to trial at the next session. A massive well done to all those students who are making the PE Department very proud!

Wales High School Sports - Winter Round-up

The PE department have had a fabulous start to the academic year. The extra curricular programme has seen over 300 boys and girls represent the school in 150 plus matches from Rugby to Cross country, from indoor athletics to Netball. The students have been fantastic ambassadors for the school.

Year 7 Football – The enthusiasm shown by all the boys who have taken part in Y7 football this year has been outstanding. Since September practice has been well attended which has meant over 25 boys turning up each week. Over the course of the season all the students who have been attending practice have had an opportunity to represent the school. The quality of play has been high but luck hasn't been on the teams side. In friendly games the team have scored lots of goals and won most of their matches. They have narrowly missed out in the cups losing 4-3 to a last minute winner against Hungerhill in the South Yorkshire Schools’ Cup and 1-0 to St Bernard's in Round 1 of the Rotherham Schools. This meant the team went into the plate competition where they reached the semi final. After an epic 5-5 draw the game went to penalties. Again luck deserted the boys who lost this encounter 4-3. All the boys have shown commitment to practice and playing and hopefully this level will continue in Y8, just with a bit more success in the cup competitions.

Year 9 Football - The Year 9 boys led by Captain Regan Millard, continued their winning ways with success in the Rotherham Cup. Scoring 24 goals and only conceding 5 in their 5 games. The boys managed to retain the Cup for another year, meaning they have won the competition 3 years in a row. The only school team to do so in the schools history.

Unfortunately the boys lost in the South Yorkshire Cup final to a strong Westfield team. The boys played well and represented the school in an excellent manner; they are true role models for other students.

In all competitions this year the team have scored 62 goals and only conceded 13 goals. The leading goal scorer with 25 goals is Sam Eccles, with Jacob Gratton scoring 13 from midfield. A wonderful season.

Y8 History Visit to Leicester Cathedral

A group of Year 8 students spent an enjoyable day in Leicester. They had a guided tour of the Cathedral which focussed mainly on Richard III. They were able to see and touch his tomb and saw his pall and a replica of his crown.

The students also visited the famous Guildhall, one of the finest examples of medieval architecture in this country. They learnt about the various uses of the Guildhall.

After the historical morning activities, the students visited The Curve Theatre to see an excellent production of the musical 'Oliver'.

Students were lucky to meet Mickey on the

visit to Leicester!

HISTORY VISITS

~ LEICESTER CATHEDRAL ~

In February, a group of Y12 History students visited Berlin as part of their AS studies. Students

visited the Reichstag, the Television Tower, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and the

Brandenburg Gate. This visit enabled students to find out more about Weimar and Nazi History.

Students found the Jewish memorial particularly moving as it provided personal accounts of the

Holocaust. Students thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to experience History first-hand and

many are already planning their own return visits!

~ BERLIN ~ Reading Mentors Since November 2015 to February 2016 Lower 6th Reading Mentors have been supporting their

Y7 reading partners three times a week in order to help them with their reading and to build

confidence. The following L6th and Y7 pupils have now graduated the scheme.

L6th Mentors Y7 Mentees

Connor James Daniel Godfrey Jamie Cox

Georgia Crowther Blake Norman Ethan Barthorpe

Alicia Clewes Marcus Hayward Jack Beaman

Jessica Bailey Ellie May Eyre Brian Foster

Josh Gregory Mathew Howell Mitchell Barton

Gabrielle Herrington William Pearson Leah Webb

Courtney Simmons Davina Oxtoby Toby Hudson

Courtney Allen Ben Gibson Olivia Durrans

Emma Henderson

Hannah Howarth

Medicine Taster Day The taster day was extremely informative and had several sections to it.

Introduction: Students met up in a lecture theatre and it was explained that they would be sepa-

rated into groups and theses groups would be involved in 3 sessions.

All these sessions were led by trainee doctors:

CPR

Diagnosis and Prescribing (scenario session) - looking at blood counts and testing water

samples

Main organ functions (what are the main organs that keeps us alive and how they can be

affected with things e.g. smoking) and what other illnesses can be brought on when one of

these organs are affected.

At the end all the students were asked to write on post-it notes any questions they might have.

Closure Session: Held in lecture theatre

Trainee medical students answered questions from cost of living and how long it took to

train to become a doctor and where the courses were held.

Finally a First Year Doctor answered questions.

Students were given information packs and certificates.

Young Person’s Mental Health Conference

Throughout this term Rebecca Parkin (Y13) and Danny Gillings (Y10) have been heavily

involved with organising the Young Person's Mental Health Conference 2016. As members of

the Rotherham Youth Parliament they have organised the conference which will take place

during the Easter holidays on Monday 21st March at the New York Stadium, Rotherham. The

event involves a series of workshops led by specialists in their field. With mental health being on

the forefront of many discussions and debates at present it is pleasing to see two of our students

taking a lead on this.

~ BERLIN ~

~ STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM ~

A group of Year 9 students visited Staffordshire Regimental Museum on 10th March to find out more about the First World War. Students were given the opportunity to explore a trench, handle weaponry and try on authentic uniforms. Students found out about the dangers of trench foot, gas attacks and the perils of 'going over the top'. Students also took part in a session which assessed the reliability of different forms of evidence and how some sources may be biased.

STEM Event - On the 2nd March,

students from Y7 and Y9 were treated

to a visit from the BAE Systems & RAF

Education Programme Roadshow

Team and their plethora of high tech

demonstrations and interactive

activities. Students were wowed by

demonstrations on waves; ranging from

using smoke and lasers to high tech

cameras and fibre optics. What makes

these visits special is that they always

teach the science in a fun way and then

bring in into context from an engineer-

ing point of view in the real world faced

by real RAF personnel. My personal

highlight was when students got up and

contributed to a “wave of words” using

a digital looper pedal; the results had

the students and staff alike in stitches!

Students can’t wait for the next visit!"

~ ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE, LONDON ~

In January a group of Year 11 History

students visited the Royal Courts of Justice in

London to learn about the Suffragettes. The

interactive session took place in a real court

room and students re-enacted a real court

case involving a suffragette called Mary

Richardson. This engaging session developed

critical thinking skills as students played the

roles of judge, jury, barristers, witnesses and

the defendant. Following the mock trial at the

Royal Courts of Justice students spent time at

the Houses of Parliament to learn about the

voting process. This behind the scenes

session involved a full tour of the Houses of

Parliament and access to the House of

Commons and the House of Lords. Following

our visit to Westminster we headed

to Whitechapel to hear about Jack the Ripper

and visit the sites where the ripper murders

took place over 100 years ago. The following

day the group visited the Tower of London and

spent time looking at the numerous exhibits -

including the crown jewels! Before departing

students had the opportunity to visit

Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street,

Westminster Abbey and the Banqueting

House where King Charles I was executed.

The visit proved to be both enjoyable

and rewarding for all involved!

~ NATIONAL COAL MINING MUSEUM ~

Year 8 students visited

the National Coal Mining

Museum at Wakefield to

learn about the early

history of mining as part

of their study on the

Industrial Revolution.

Students spoke to former

miners and were able to

ask questions about the dangers of working down the pit. Students toured the site and visited

the pit baths and the stables housing the pit ponies.