Museum My First

Thursday.

This is Harry and he is six years old.

Harry loves spending time at school.

Thursday. Good boy, Harry. Put it on the board.

Today is Thursday.

OK. Harry, do you think you can find your name?

Can you put it on the board?

# Harry, you have found your name Harry, you have found your name. #

Today, Harry is going to be doing something new for the first time.

But what will it be?

This is Harry's memory box.

It helps him remember all the exciting things that have happened.

See if you can spot anything going in it today.

Harry likes to visit his grandma with his mum and dad

and play games in the back garden.

We've played football. We've played rounders.

This is what I used to do at school. Throw the ball

and somebody would have to catch, like Harry.

-Yeah, good catching.

-Play again.

-Does Harry skip at school with skipping ropes?

-Yeah.

I bet Grandma played skittles at school.

Yes, I had some skittles at school.

Grandma is showing Harry some old black-and-white photos.

Can you spot anyone, Harry?

-Who's that?

-Grandma!

-It is! It's me!

Yes, how did you recognise me in that?

-Let's have a look. Is that Grandma as a baby?

-Yeah.

And that's Grandma when she was very little, Harry.

Even smaller than you.

And this was me when I was at school.

Can you find me on there at school? Can you?

That's a boy, that.

Along, along, along and stop.

-There's Grandma.

-There we go. There we go.

-Grandma!

-Yes.

-I bet it was very different.

It certainly was. It certainly was. It was lovely, though.

-I loved school.

-Would you like to go to a museum

and see what things were like in the past?

When Grandma was little.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-That would be good, wouldn't it?

-We'll go to the museum.

-We'll go.

With Grandma. And see what the things were like in the past.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

A museum. How exciting.

A museum is a place that we visit

that helps look after special items from the past.

It helps us look back and remember what the past was like.

There are tons of different museums that are fun to visit.

Today, Harry is going to a living museum

that showed how people used to live 100 years ago.

-Are we at a giant museum?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yes, we are. Yes.

Can you see the tram?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, we're going to go on it.

Wow, look at all the trams from long ago.

-Are we going to go upstairs?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Up you go, then.

-Wow, this is exciting.

You always get the best view upstairs.

TRAM'S BELL RINGS

Ding, ding.

Ding, ding, ding!

Ding, ding! Off we go to find out how people used to live.

-OK, bye.

-Bye.

-Bye.

-Bye. Bye.

Bye, everybody.

Whoa, is it blowing your hair?

Is it blowing your spikes?

-Grandma!

-And Grandma's hair.

-..Oh, it better not.

Oh, look. We're nearly at the shops.

Wow, look.

That's an old baker's.

Wow!

-What's that?

-Bye.

Oh, it's a garage.

Looks like this is your stop, Harry.

Two... Three!

-Wave.

-Wave.

-Wave. Are you going to wave to everybody?

-Bye.

-Bye.

-Bye.

The first thing to go into Harry's memory box is the tram.

Things looked a lot different in the past, didn't they, Harry?

-See what we can find in here.

-This is a lovely old shop, isn't it?

This was a shop.

Thank you, Harry.

-Here's your bag.

-Say, "Thank you."

This was the dentist.

Oh, yes. Can you put it back in there?

And people used to write with big feathers called quills.

But some things don't change.

Merry-go-rounds are still lots of fun. I wonder what else we will see.

Look. Look at the sweeties.

Look at them. Look at that chocolate.

That's like Grandma used to buy.

Look at those. Oh. Lovely. Shall we go into the sweetshop?

Come on. Hold my hand, we'll get inside.

Oh, look, look, look.

-Wow.

-See the sweeties?

-Oh, oh, Grandma used to have sweets like this.

-Oh, wow!

-Wow.

-Harry.

-Do you want to choose which ones?

There is so much choice, Harry. What will you choose?

Pear drops. Mm, good choice.

-Are you going to give the lady the money?

-Oh, yes.

Good boy. You've got it.

-Give it the lady.

-Thank you. And there's your bag.

-Yeah!

-You're welcome.

-There we go.

-Thank you.

Look over here, Harry. What's he doing?

This man is making sweets to sell in the shop.

Do you want to have a go and try this?

This is how they made toffee in the olden days.

Harry try? Look!

And he has some for you to take home.

-Say, "Thank you."

-Thank you.

-You're welcome.

Say, "Bye," to the nice man.

-Bye.

-Bye-bye.

-Thank you!

-Bye, thank you.

-Bye.

The second thing to go into the memory box is the sweetshop.

What do you think this old building is, Harry?

Come on. We're going to go into a classroom in here. In the school.

Not like Harry's school. It's a different school, this one.

It's a very old school.

Oh! It's a school.

I used to sit at a desk just like this

when I was a little girl at school.

See if we can write Harry's name, shall we?

Can we do Harry? Harry, go on, then. You do Harry. Good boy.

Look at that blackboard over there.

Look. That's what the teacher writes on, the blackboard.

I've got some coloured chalk. We'll write Harry on here.

-Look, Harry. Look.

-GRANDMA GASPS

Look at that. Yes, good boy.

And a round and a down for Harry.

-Yes, like that.

-Me!

The down and around like that.

Whoa. You wouldn't have been writing on the teacher's blackboard.

It was just for the teacher.

Three...

This is an abacus.

People used this for counting before calculators were made.

Now, this one here.

-Six.

-Six.

When I was at school we had to sit still.

We couldn't walk around the classroom.

Just had to sit here all the time and listen to the teacher.

But they still got a playtime.

Yay!

This is an old game called hoop rolling.

And it looks hard.

Maybe we should just stick with our iPad.

Eh, it's dead easy, that.

I think Dad has the hang of it, though.

There's always one.

And we'll retire, shall we?

Practice makes perfect.

The third thing into the memory box is the rolling hoop.

Are we going to put our hats on?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. You need to put your hat on.

-So, let's stop here.

We've got to put our hats on here. Have you got yours?

-Where's Harry's hat?

-Here.

Oh, what do you need a hat for, Harry?

-There you go.

-Let's have a look. It nearly fits.

-Thank you.

What do you think's down here?

It's very dark.

Harry is heading underground into a mine.

People used to come down here to work.

-Work? Yeah!

-Wow!

-Watch your head. The big ones will have to watch their heads.

-Yeah!

-Wow!

-Wow!

A mine is used for digging up materials underground.

This was a coalmine and the coal was used to heat our houses.

It's a long way down, isn't it?

It's dark down here, Harry.

I wonder if you'll find any coal in the mine.

We used to put that on fires, when Grandma was little.

-When Grandma was little.

-Yeah. It leaves black marks on your face.

-Oh! Can you put it back in there?

-Do you want to put it back in here?

-Yeah.

-Go on, then.

-Again!

-Again.

-Again. Do you want another bit?

Yeah, please.

Do you want to get a smaller piece?

That's a little one.

Wow. No, pick it up.

Put it back in the cart for Dad. Put it back in here.

Listen, that piece there, look. They used to go into those tubs

and the ponies used to pull them to the surface.

Little ponies, that's all they were.

This is how they used to mine most of the coal.

All they used to use, a pick, a shovel and a drill.

You'd chop the floor of the seam off using the pick,

drill the holes with the hand drill and blast the coal down.

Shall we go out now?

Do you want to go back out into the sunshine?

It's time to go back out for some fresh air.

-Hey, we're out again.

-Wow.

Hold my hand. Whoa.

Hats off.

It looks like you've been down the mine, you're all dirty.

-That's funny, isn't it?

-Yeah.

You've got loads of coal all over your face.

THEY LAUGH

The fourth thing into the memory box is coal from the mine.

Are you ready to be going home now?

It's time to catch the bus back.

There we go.

-THEY GASP

-All aboard.

Today, Harry went to a museum. Do you remember what happened?

Let's have a look in the memory box.

First, Harry rode the tram into the old town.

After that, Harry went to the sweetshop

to see how sweets were made.

Next, Harry learned what school was like for Grandma

and played with a rolling hoop.

And, finally, Harry went down the mine, where he found some coal.

Today, Harry went to a museum.

There's a first time for everything.