Riverside Primary's Visit to Eton College Natural History Museum

On Tuesday 3rd June Riverside Primary's Willow Class visited Eton College Natural History Museum. 

They brought along their instruments they had made in the classroom and we started the day by creating a Willow Class orchestra and came up with a rhythm for each section to play on their instruments! After many practices, we recorded the rhythm and played it back so everybody could hear how it sounded!

After lunch, the students explored the Robin Hanbury-Tenison collection of ethnographic objects in the museum and they learnt all about the people who used them, what they are made from and how they are used. They explored a Nambiquara Nose Flute, Suya Arrows, Borneo Fishing Charms and a Penan Blow Pipe.

They also learnt about Robin Hanbury- Tenison, who is an explorer who used to go to Eton College. He traveled the world and met lots of different people. The people he met gave him many of the objects that we saw in the museum's ethnographic collection as gifts. 

The class then worked in smaller groups to write a story. They were set the task of writing a story with no more than 10 lines and it had to include the museum object they had been looking at and the main character in their story had to be Robin Hanbury-Tenison!

After the story was written they added some sound effects and they then performed it for the rest of the class! We also recorded their stories and added them to the backing track that we recorded earlier in the day!

Check back here soon to listen to the sound story they created!

Thank you to Willow Class for all their hard work on the project!