Wow what a fantastic experience we have all had today! We all learnt about the Vardo and about the life of Romani Gypsy Travellers. The children had lots of activities that they all really enjoyed. We got to go in the Vardo and see how a family would sleep in there. The children washed up and even did some washing in the basins outside. Some children collected water in a large container, this was very heavy!
We learnt that if you were in a large family then the Mum, Dad and daughters would sleep in the Vardo but the sons had to sleep outside in a bender tent. Mr Duncalf was very kind to help us build our own bender tents using hazel chopped from our trees. This was such a fun activity.
Bender tents are surprisingly warm once you are inside and actually proved great shelter for us today from the rain!
Mrs Hall and Miss Richards worked with the children in the classroom making paper flowers and their very own Vardo models. These all looked brilliant and can be seen in Year 1.
This afternoon we carried on finding out about different traditions for the Romani Gypsy Travellers including dancing. Karen Hunt (who brought the Vardo) taught the children a very energetic dance! Miss Richard's groups decorated milk churns with beautiful patterns and flowers.
Mrs Hall explained about the Romani flag and the children made their own flags that symbolises them. Miss Munro taught the children lots of Romani words. I wonder if your child remembers the Romani word for: car, horse, teeth, man, rabbit?
I hope that your child has talked to you about all of the exciting activities we have been doing today. We will be carrying on with looking at Romani Gypsy Travellers by reading and acting out the story of 'Stone Soup', and hopefully (weather depending) will be cooking on an open fire in the roundhouse area on Thursday . If your child would like to do some writing or make some of the things we have been making today for home learning I would love to see it!
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