{"id":113,"date":"2025-10-07T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:11:12","slug":"drama-the-plague-of-eyam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/2025\/10\/07\/drama-the-plague-of-eyam\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama &#8211; The Plague of Eyam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We followed the story of William and Lizzie, and how they lived through the Plague in their village of Eyam. We re-enacted some of the events and learned that the plague is thought to be the origin of the nursery rhyme &#8216; Ring a Ring o Roses&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080908\/1-rotated-e1759820993448-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080908\/1-rotated-e1759820993448-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080908\/1-rotated-e1759820993448.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080909\/2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080909\/2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080909\/2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080910\/3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080910\/3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080910\/3-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080911\/4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080911\/4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080911\/4.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/5.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/6-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/6-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080912\/6-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-120\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080914\/7-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080914\/7-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080914\/7-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/8-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/8-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/8-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/9-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/9-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080915\/9-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080916\/10-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080916\/10-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080916\/10.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080917\/11-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080917\/11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080917\/11.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080918\/13-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080918\/13-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080918\/13-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080919\/14-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080919\/14-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080919\/14-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080920\/15-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080920\/15-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080920\/15-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080921\/16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080921\/16-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/nrps6\/uploads\/sites\/20807\/2025\/10\/07080921\/16-rotated.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We followed the story of William and Lizzie, and how they lived through the Plague in their village of Eyam. We re-enacted some of the events and learned that the plague is thought to be the origin of the nursery rhyme &#8216; Ring a Ring o Roses&#8217;! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/nrps6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}