Hanes Yr Ysgol

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-# In school, in school

-# Come with us

-# To work and play

-from nine until three

-# In school, in school

-# Let's read some stories

-# Everyone in class

-are good friends #

-Hello, everyone.

-It's another lovely day.

-Everyone's ready for school.

-We're off to see our friends in

-Ysgol Sant Curig and Ysgol Llanrug.

-We're going back in time with

-the children of Ysgol Sant Curig.

-We're also heading to Caernarfon

-Castle with Ifan and his father.

-I want to go up there, Dad.

-Look!

-Everyone in Barry has dressed

-like children from yesteryear.

-Even Miss Withey.

-Silence.

-In you go.

-She's behaving differently today.

-She's very serious...

-..like the teachers of yesteryear.

-Yes, we've returned to Merthyr

-in 1842, over 150 years ago.

-Show me your hands.

-All the children must show

-they have clean hands...

-..before they enter the classroom.

-Hands.

-Joni, they're dirty.

-Go and wash your hands.

-Ethan, they're dirty. Let me see.

-Go and wash your hands.

-Poor boys.

-Miss Withey is very serious today.

-There no electricity

-to light the rooms today.

-They're using candlelight.

-Backs straight.

-The register next.

-Llywelyn?

-Llywelyn?

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-Here.

-Here, Miss.

-Libby?

-Rhydian? Back straight.

-Good morning, everyone.

-Good morning, everyone.

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-Good morning, Miss Withey.

-Yuck! Once again.

-Good morning, everyone.

-Good morning, Miss Withey.

-Thank you. OK.

-Mathematics.

-Look!

-No paper or pencils or computers.

-A slate and chalk for writing.

-Are you ready to copy?

-Away you go.

-Show me your answers.

-Good, Joni.

-Ready?

-School wasn't a fun place to be

-in olden times.

-Stop.

-Chairs under the table.

-Stand up straight.

-Quietly.

-Backs straight.

-Five times table. Ready?

-Yes.

-One five is five.

-Two fives are ten.

-Three fives are fifteen.

-Four fives are twenty.

-Five fives are twenty-five.

-Six fives are thirty.

-Well, that was no fun.

-Our next visitor

-will put a smile on their faces.

-Today, we're celebrating the...

-Victorian Age.

-During the Victorian Age,

-not all children could go to school.

-Some were poor.

-They would be forced to work.

-Do you know where they worked?

-In the coalmine.

-Correct. Do you know what?

-We have a special visitor today.

-Susan Rees from Merthyr.

-1842.

-She's never been to a school before.

-We must treat her kindly.

-And welcome her.

-Ready?

-Hello, Susan.

-Hello.

-Hello, Susan.

-Would you like to sit down?

-My master told me

-to bring a bucket of coal...

-..from the coalmine

-and give it to your head teacher.

-She needs to light a fire in school

-to keep you warm.

-How do you keep warm?

-We use a heater.

-What's a heater?

-Something metal which heats up.

-I've never seen one before.

-Is there one here?

-Yes. There's one there,

-there and behind you.

-That big thing on the wall.

-That's what keeps you warm?

-It's nice and hot in here.

-Mam's making Welsh cakes

-on the fire.

-Do your mothers cook on the fire?

-No.

-No? What do they use to cook?

-An oven.

-An oven.

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-An oven?

-I don't understand.

-My mother cooks on the fire.

-She wakes up early in the morning...

-..and lights the fire

-to cook breakfast.

-Do you know what I have

-for breakfast?

-What do I have for breakfast? Yes?

-Bread and tea.

-Bread and tea.

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-Yes!

-I have bread and tea.

-What do you have?

-Toast.

-Straight after breakfast,

-I dress quickly.

-Do you know where I go?

-The coalmine.

-I'm underground for 12 hours -

-12 hours a day.

-Dad goes down to the coalface.

-John and Dafydd go with him.

-I stay on my own, by the air door.

-Do you know

-what Dad and John and Dafydd do?

-Your father breaks the coal.

-That's right. My father

-breaks the coal at the coalface.

-Big lumps of coal.

-Do you know what they do?

-Put the coal in the cart.

-That wooden cart is full of coal.

-It's very heavy.

-Dafydd pulls it through the tunnels

-and I can hear the cart coming.

-I know that I have to open the door.

-It's heavy.

-If I don't open and close the door,

-there's no fresh air in the tunnels.

-Do you have a question?

-How did you get here?

-On the train, the steam train,

-this morning.

-I brought the head teacher

-some coal.

-I'd better take this coal

-to the head teacher. Cheerio!

-What do you say?

-What do you say?

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-Thank you, Susan Rees.

-Thank you very much.

-Cheerio. Cheerio!

-Next, we head to Caernarfon Castle

-with Ifan and his father.

-There's another door over there.

-Wow!

-Can we go up there, Dad?

-OK, we'll go up there.

-This castle is very old.

-Over 800 years old.

-Hundreds of people have lived here.

-No-one lives here now.

-That's the way in.

-The fireplace.

-Time to play hide-and-seek

-before they go.

-Boo!

-Dad!

-Can I buy a horse?

-OK then.

-It has a red dragon on it.

-Here's Ifan the knight

-with his horse in Caernarfon Castle.

-Back in school,

-it's playtime in 1842.

-A skipping rope.

-Hoops.

-And skittles.

-What do you have here? Skittles.

-How do you play the game?

-You try and hit these. OK. Do you

-want to help me set the skittles?

-Great.

-Ready?

-Well done. What's your score?

-One, two, three, four,

-five, six, seven, eight.

-Excellent. Set it up again, Dylan,

-it's your turn.

-Off you go.

-Playing cup and ball

-looks very difficult.

-That's enough playing for now.

-It's time to return

-to the classroom.

-I got it in!

-We've been outside

-playing lots of different games.

-One of them was cup and ball.

-You can create the cup and ball game

-using a polystyrene cup...

-..and a ping pong ball.

-OK, off you go.

-Everyone seems to be having fun now.

-Hooray!

-There's the bell.

-Time to go home

-after a busy day in 1842.

-Cheerio.

-We'll see you soon in Yr Ysgol.

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