Preparing for #ArchaeologyWHGS #WHGS_YAC tomorrow at WHGS Primary! We've been looking at medieval manuscripts and will be using a variety of vegetable inks to add colour to our 'illuminated' letters.
Thanks to YAC and The Harley Foundation for the inspiration 🙌

#WHGS_YAC had a great session using homemade inks (from onion skins, hibiscus flowers, avocado stones and acorn caps) to add colour to their 'illuminated' letters! We even tried using feathers as quills to add detail YAC The Harley Foundation #ArchaeologyWHGS #archaeology #medieval

#WHGS_YAC have been working hard to create our very first display board in school! It includes artefact-based objects we've made (with object labels and info cards), visitor spotlights and places to visit around Manchester! John Piprani Dr Nicky Nielsen Nick Overton YAC

William Hulme Grammar School YAC opened the doors to its after-school branch 6 months ago. You can follow all their adventures using #WHGS_YAC .

Check out what they have been getting up to and open your own after-school YAC branch here 👇
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#WHGS_YAC thought like archaeologists yesterday! We learned about how organic/inorganic materials rot (or not) thanks to Historic England and had a go at archaeological interpretation using reconstructions of sites like #suttonhoo and the Portesham grave...1/2

YAC The Harley Foundation Look at these works of art! @yac_cba #ink #medieval #archaeology #WHGS_YAC

#WHGS_YAC got dirty yesterday! We started an experiment into how different materials decompose by selecting organic and inorganic objects and burying them in soil. We selected card, fruit, fabric, bone and metal. Which object do you think will rot first? YAC ArchaeologyUK

#WHGS_YAC had a special visitor recently! Nick Overton taught us about No Name Hill, a wetland Mesolithic site in Yorkshire, and what was found on the dig. We got to touch 11,000 yr old artefacts...1/2
YAC ArchaeologyUK Dr Barry Taylor #archaeology

Absolutely love this little club #archaeology #archaeology education
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This was such a lovely end to our first year of #whgs_yac at WHGS Primary. I cannot wait for next year! YAC

#WHGS_YAC had such a great time learning about the #Mesolithic with Nick Overton! Loved hearing their hypotheses of what the engravings on the pendant could be (pathways, a map, an event) #ArchaeologyWHGS

Things like this really make me smile!
Go WHGS Primary! Fantastic! #WHGS_YAC

Those models look fantastic #WHGS_YAC 🤩

I'm inspired by this lot! Great work all WHGS Primary #WHGS_YAC

These are brilliant! Definitely a skilled bunch of future mosaicists / mosaic restorers right there!
Well done WHGS Primary #WHGS_YAC !

Well done #WHGS_YAC !

Amazing stuff from WHGS Primary #WHGS_YAC young archaeologists club recreating a roman mosaic that was recently featured on #diggingforbritain . Keep an eye out for updates, it's going to be amazing when it's done!

It looks like our first ever After School club have been super creative, designing their own #prehistoric pendants based on the one found at Star Carr in #NorthYorkshire 🤩
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WHGS Primary has been featured on YAC's website! Check it out if you want to see (in a nutshell) what we've been up to
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Had a great time last week talking to WHGS Primary #WHGS_YAC about #Mesolithic #Archaeology in Britain. Fantastic to meet so many enthusiastic young archaeologists! Thanks Kelsey Overton for the invitation to come and join the archaeological fun!