Year 6 had a long but interesting day today on their visit to County Hall. We began bright and early by walking down to the station and catching the train to Preston. As part of this term’s Citizenship activities, we spent the morning with Mr. Mynott, who took us into Lancashire County Council’s council chamber to learn about what the council do and who can be a councillor. We learnt about the way councillors make decisions and even had a go at an electronic vote ourselves. We also liked sitting in the councillors’ seats and using the microphones when we wanted to ask a question.

After lunch, we went over the road to the county’s Archive Department, where we had the opportunity to explore the strong rooms which hold thousands of important historical documents related to Lancashire. We found information on the construction of the M6, baptism records from when St. Paul’s Church first opened in the 1800s and some very interesting registers and log books from “Scotforth National School” in the 1860s. We also got the chance to look at a Book of Hours, handwritten and beautifully illustrated in the 1400s. To quote one member of our class: “It’s not every day you get to such something that old!”