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Stanmer Park
Teacher Resources
Image courtesy of: Bevendean History Group
A question
of forces
How can a donkey
be a hamster?
DT and Science, age range 4-11.
Cross curricular links: Science and History*
Learning outcomes The donkey wheel at Stanmer Park
I have:
• learned about rotational forces and WHAT YOU WILL NEED
friction
This is either an activity based in a
• considered the issues around what classroom, or can be done outside if
we need for survival and how we treat you’re making the water wheel.
animals You will need:
I can: • sycamore seeds
• e xamples of spinning forces –
• explain how people in the past used clockwork toys, cogs, yoyos, sand
techniques that allowed them to be or water wheels, bike wheels –
self-sufficient these can be real objects, images
or video clips
• design a model that uses rotational
forces to work
A question of forces How can a donkey be a hamster? page 2
Stanmer Park – what’s the story?
The Stanmer estate is huge! It covers To provide water for the village a well was built,
500 acres, with parkland, farmland, which was operated by using a donkey wheel.
woodland and a village street. A special water catcher was also designed to catch
Stanmer gets its name from the rainwater and store it in tanks. This meant the
stony pond (from the Anglo-Saxon whole estate was supplied with water for free.
words meaning stone (stan) and You can still see aspects of all of these features in
pond (mere), which can still be seen the park today.
there today.
Stanmer is still a working estate and village.
Stanmer Park was bought by the People live and work there today and a park
Pelham family in 1713. restoration project will be completed in 2021.
The manor house was built, along We are very lucky in Brighton to have an example
with landscaped gardens and a of a country estate which is open to visitors and
walled garden to supply the house still has all these original features.
with food.
Bevendaen History Group
During the Victorian era, Stanmer
Church, which is next to the original
pond, and a village of 18 houses
were built to house the workers.
Water for Stanmer house was
provided by means of a seventeenth
century well house (or horse gin
engine) adjacent to the house.
The Horse Gin at Stanmer Park
How to run the session LEARN ABOUT THE DONKEY WHEEL
Begin by finding out a bit about Stanmer Park Use the following resources*
and its history.* • Stanmer Horse Gin & Donkey Wheel*
Questions for the children
• Other structures around Brighton
1. Where is Stanmer Park in relation to your school? & Hove that you might not be
2. Shall we look at a map and find out? familiar with*
3. Have any of you visited the park? • A Slideshow of pictures of the
4. Can you remember anything about it? donkey wheel*
5. Have any of you visited the tea shop, walked ‘The rare vertically mounted donkey-
or cycled in the woods or collected conkers wheel is 13ft in diameter and was
there in the Autumn? powered by a donkey walking a circular
* Visit Stanmer Learning online to find all the path around the well up until 1870 and
then by a man up until 1900! The well
pupil activity sources and weblinks. These pages
was dug in the 16th Century and is an
also contain further reading and the specific
amazing 252ft deep!’
National Curriculum links for the resource.
From Brighton & Hove News.
A question of forces How can a donkey be a hamster? page 3
DISCUSSION POINTS HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS TO
SPARK A CLASS DISCUSSION:
Look at or brainstorm some other
examples of spinning or rotational forces,
such as: 1. H
ow would life have been for the
donkey and then for the man who
• bicycle wheels
used to walk in the wheel?
• clockwork
• sycamore seeds 2. Is it fair to use animals and donkeys like
this? (They would only have worked a
• toy water/sand wheels few times a day, not all the time!).
• wind and water wheels
3. H
ow does it compare with farm
• wind turbines
animals, pets and people who do
• yoyos repetitive jobs?
Can the children think of any more? 4. H
ow do rotational forces help us?
Think about wind turbines, clocks,
bikes etc, also automated
vehicles like cars and trains.
Main activity
OPTION 1
Can children think about how to
construct a simple spinning toy? OPTION 2
Encourage them to brainstorm first Create a water wheel using the following
but assist with some structured ideas resource*
if needed.
Here are some questions to spark a class discussion:
Examples of resources to build*
1. W
atch this lovely example of an eco water wheel
1. Spinning tops. (see Dengineers Water Wheel resource*) –
why is this wheel lovely to look at but not
2. Paper spinner toys – these also link so useful?
to the Y6 light topic in Science.
2. W
hat have you learned about how water
3. Create a Paper spinning windmill. wheels work?
3. W
hat have you learned about
* Visit Stanmer Learning online to rotational forces?
find all the pupil activity sources
and weblinks. These pages also 4. W
hat has it made you question about
contain further reading and the how we use animals to help us with
specific National Curriculum links our basic needs?
for the resource.
A question of forces How can a donkey be a hamster? page 4
Jack and Jill
– Nursery Rhyme
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down
Jack and Jill windmills, Clayton, Sussex
And broke his crown
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Adapting the session
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got
And home did trot
FOR THOSE THAT NEED MORE SUPPORT As fast as he could caper,
For lower ability or younger children: Went to bed
• use option 1 – making simple spinning toys To mend his head
• make a water wheel as a whole class With vinegar and brown paper.
FOR THOSE THAT NEED A CHALLENGE Author: Unknown
For higher ability or older children:
• construct their own toy or wheel using cogs,
pulleys, levers and rotational forces
Homework ideas
VISIT OR RESEARCH
• wind turbines off the coast of Brighton
• windmills – one example in Sussex are the
Jack and Jill windmills
• Sussex water wheels.
WRITE
• You could compose a poem about a
waterwheel or windmill.*
Rampion offshore wind farm, Sussex coast
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