Introducing Mystery Class #6 Croydon, England (51.372 N, 0.082 W ) Our school and Students Greetings to you all from Mystery Class #6. By now you have probably found us in Croydon which is a borough in the south of Greater London in the United Kingdom. We are Mr Milburn s year 7 Science class In Archbishop Tenison's school. There are 25 boys and girls in our class at the moment. We have described ourselves as a lively group of students. Mr Milburn has been teaching at the school for 31 years so he is able to make sure that we all do our best. It has been fun for us all to be part of the Mystery Class project. You may well have found us elsewhere on Journey North as we and previous Year 7 classes have planted Tulips and have recorded them growing and blooming. Our school is even older than Mr Milburn is! Archbishop Tenison founded a school for 12 poor boys and 12 poor girls in Croydon in 1714. That was the same year as Queen Anne passed her famous Longitude Act. The school is now in its third building, which was opened in 1959 by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. If you wish to find out more about Archbishop Tenison's School visit our Web site where you will find more pictures of our school. How would you like to wear these clothes to school every day? If you do visit our site you will see that we all wear a school uniform. That is quite normal for British schools. The original uniform worn by the girls of this school was very different from our modern uniform. Here are some former students wearing copies of the 1714 uniform. Our school starts at 08.25 each day when we register. A Christian assembly follows this for about 20 minutes. Most staff and students contribute to these assemblies over the course of a year. Lessons commence at 09.00, with three one hour lessons with a twenty minute break between the second and third lessons. Then Lunch, either our own packed lunches or a meal from the canteen. The afternoon is another two lessons long. We study English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Art, Music, Technology, Information Technology, Religious Studies and Physical Education. Our timetable takes two weeks to complete a cycle, so it is a little confusing when we first come to the school, but we have now mastered it for this year. You will have tracked us down to be in a part of London. This city is so well known around the world that we feel that many of you will know at least something about us already. We therefore decided to give you all a list of websites that are linked to our clues. These will tell you all about our city. Some of them have webcams linked to them so you may see us going about our daily activities. Royal Observatory Royal Observatory We thought we might start at Greenwich, as that is so important in finding us. Above are photos of the Royal Observatory at the 0 degrees longitude location. In the first photo, note the red ball which is raised and lowered to tell ships on the Thames when it is exactly 12.00 so that they may set their chronometers accurately before they start their journeys around the world. This is now replaced by time signals for ships, but the ball still moves every day. Below are two photos of the 0 degrees longitude line on the wall outside the Royal Observatory Greenwich, which looked like this a couple of Sundays ago. In the second photo you can see our teacher, Mr. Milburn, standing with one foot in each half of the world. 0 degrees longitude line Mr. Milburn standing with one foot on each half of the world! Here are the Web sites that relate to our clues: More information about the Royal Observatory The White tower is part of the Tower of London The Millennium Dome is at Greenwich The Eye is a Ferris wheel on the Thames at Westminster Big Ben is part of the Palace of Westminster. Check to see what the current time is on its clock--Live! Details of the old Croydon airport are found here Take a look at our new Tramlink which is becoming quite famous and is now a good way of travelling around our borough. In 1851 the crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park in the centre of London. It was later moved to Sydenham in south London. The area is now called Crystal Palace. Like all of you, we do have time when we are not in school. We can reach most of the sites in London by train, quite quickly. If you ever visit the city we suggest that you might try the London Zoo, the Trocadero centre, the Imax cinema or any of the London theatres and cinemas. In Croydon you might enjoy the Clocktower, Valley Park, and ten-pin bowling. There are many places in London and Croydon for you to enjoy shopping. You could start at the Whitgift Centre, then go to Brixton and on to the delights of the West End shops around Oxford and Regent streets. Please contact us. You may write directly to us through Mr. Milburn at Bob.Milburn@cwcom.net , or use the form on our school Web site. Thank you for all the fun of making up the clues. We tried to find the other nine along with you. Bye for now until we all see Journey North again next year. God bless you all! Class 7HM Archbishop Tenison s School. Back to Today's Report Copyright 2001 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form