Husthwaite Primary School’s

Brilliant Builders!

May 2012

Year 1 and 2 at Husthwaite CE Primary School has been working on a fantastic topic ‘Brilliant Buildings’, discovering and learning about the many varied designs and materials used in the craft of building works.

We were really excited when Steve Thompson of Easingwold’s

Franken Properties came to help us develop our

practical building skills with a ‘crash’ course in

wall building.

With a selection of tools we learnt how to use a spirit level,

trowel, hammer, line and mix cement.

We each laid a brick on our wall making sure

they were tapped down and layered correctly for strength and under

Steve’s patient tuition we were experts

by the end!

BUT

There was some information missing!

Where do bricks come from?

So, to round off our topic we took a trip to The YORK Handmade Brick Company,

in Alne, who are making the bricks for The Shard, the largest building to be built in London. We learnt that bricks are made of clay dug from the clay pits in Alne. Once the clay is processed it is put into brick moulds to set. They are then removed from the moulds and are heated to 1000c for strength and durability.

We all made a clay brick, and wrote our names on it. So if you need any building work…..call Class 2!

We would like to say a big thank you to Franken Properties and

The YORK Handmade Brick Company for helping

us bring our topic alive.