Some pupils from each S1 class were given the opportunity to visit the People’s Palace, Winter Gardens, tour through the Merchant city and finally visit G.o.M.A. Their learning, responses, efforts and behaviour was exemplary!

“There was a painting of John Glassford and his family but there was two hidden people. One of the people was his previous wife who was painted over with his new wife. Also his slave was covered because he didn’t want people seeing him. He was a tobacco lord. We saw the chains the slaves had to wear and how heavy they were. We saw a collar that slaves had to wear and it had the owners name on it.”

“We held replicas of slave trade items, for example, shackles, collars and chains. We went to the Winter Gardens to find crops relevant to the slave trade. We were put into groups of four to find certain crop trees my group was supposed to find banana trees and we were to draw it and written down facts about it.”

“We held replicas of slave trade items, for example, shackles, collars and chains. We went to the Winter Gardens to find crops relevant to the slave trade. We were put into groups of four to find certain crop trees my group was supposed to find banana trees and we were to draw it and written down facts about it.”

                                                       

“We made badges about things we wanted to stop or what we were against. We drew them then coloured them in. we made these in the Gallery of Modern Art.”