LONG Ashton children went back in time to help celebrate their school's 150th anniversary.
Yesterday staff and children from Northleaze School dressed in Victorian costume to take 1860s-style lessons in the three rs – reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic.
Abacuses, slate and chalk replaced calculators and whiteboards for the pupil's "living history lesson".
The school's 200 pupils then walked from the Brook Close grounds to All Saints' Church for a thanksgiving service led by Bishop of Taunton Peter Maurice. The service, attended by families, marked the start of a week of festivities.
Head teacher Steve Davis said: "Lessons reflected the sort of things that went on in a rural village school in the 1860s and it was a living history lesson for the children.
"Of course some of the practices, especially the discipline code of those days, were not introduced."
The school is hoping to put together a picture of how it has changed.
Mr Davis added: "We are keen to see old photographs linked to the school over the years so we can get a complete picture of the last 150 years of education in Long Ashton."
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