Ryedale Folk Museum

From the 29th June to the 10th July Richard Bowman is doing work experience at the Ryedale Folk Museum. On my first day I had a bit of trouble finding the way in but, Lewis Delaney, another lad who is doing work experience here, showed me where to get in when I came in for the first time. I was a little nervous but as I had met nearly all of the staff I soon was settled in. Lewis showed me around the different places where we would be doing activities and other projects over my work experience fortnight. On my first day of work experience was to get to know the museum and the staff. I dressed as a Victorian and I assisted with a group of year 2 school children, with the Victorian wash day. Later on in the day I fed the pigs, had a practice on how to blog so I was filming and prepared some things for rug making. On my second day I was ready do the activities with the schools that were coming in for an Iron Age themed day. I did Daubing on the Iron Age round house, with three groups of...

Our names are Will, Sam and Ally and we have made this blog to show you things we did and tell you about the variety of skills we have learnt from this experience. For example on our first week we ran the NAAFI ( A cafe for the armed forces in the WW2) which gave us great pleasure and enjoyment serving a whole variety of different people, these ranged from Australia, America, Lancashire and London. Throughout our second week we have been doing a variety of tasks, for example on Monday we cut out the materials for the rag rugs and found recipes for our day of cooking on Tuesday. On Tuesday we cooked three recipes in Stang End, oat biscuits, drop scones and leek and potato soup. On Wednesday we partly restored an old plough which was hard work. During Thursday we all separately went round with a school and helped out with their various questions and activities. Finally on Friday we learnt how to make this blog and publish our experience about the museum and what an excellent placement ...