“West Rise, School by the Marsh” (2016) tells the story of West Rise Junior School, situated on the outskirts of Eastbourne, where then Headteacher, Mike Fairclough, established a curriculum inspired by the Bronze Age, as the school is located next to the site of the second-largest Bronze Age settlement in Europe.
With the help of the pupils, the school has constructed a replica roundhouse and hosts a flock of sheep, a herd of water buffalo and over a million black bees. The school now devotes much of its time to learning outdoors, with the pupils building fires, cooking, constructing tools and even smelting metal.