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• What is this building and what was it used for?
• How was wheat harvested?
• How is bread made? – consolidation of learning
• Why was a windmill built here?
• How did Wimbledon develop from when the Windmill was built?
• How does the mill work?

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What was Wimbledon like in the past?

How does the mill work?

• Show images of the pestle, the quern stone and the mill and ask what they have in common.

• Talk through the workings of the windmill using the image to support the explanation.

• The class could label an image of the windmill to explain how it works.
  
  
• Look at the video of the mill stones turning inside the Wimbledon Windmill Museum.