Lesson Support Projects
Bringing history to life, making it enjoyable – through role–play, costume, and hands–on use of artefacts!
Details of our Lesson Support Projects for Key Stage 1 and 2 are provided below.
Key Stage 1 and 2
WORLD WAR TWO
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| WW2(i) | Home Front
How it was, living in Britain in the early years of World War Two - the impact of the war on families. Pupils can try their hand at French knitting, rag rug-making, and how to make a dishcloth from string. |
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INVADERS & SETTLERS
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| Select your desired focus from.... |
| I&S(i) | a Celtic villager, |
| I&S(ii) | a Roman citizen of Calleva
(today's Silchester), |
| I&S(iii) | a Saxon farmer, |
| I&S(iv) | a Viking warrior |
| .... who tell how life is for them, |
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| I&S(v) | an overview of 1000 years of invaders and settlers who made their home in Britain and created the foundation of our present-day heritage |
– each historical character brought to life in a shared experience, through role play, simulation, storytelling and artefacts
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LIVING IN.... VICTORIAN TIMES
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| Select from.... |
| VIC(i) | ....on the canals |
| VIC(ii) | ....on the farm |
| VIC(iii) | ....in the classroom |
| VIC(iv) | Seasons of Change
Children step back in time as labourers in a 19th century farming community, at the time of the enclosures. A way of life is threatened by the coming of the steam-powered threshing machine, and by fear of having to go on to parish relief. Hands-on use of artefacts, including Victorian farming implements, helps children share in how it was. |
| VIC(v) | Yesterday's Children
This is what life was like for most children in Victorian times. Children investigate in-role the life experiences of their forbears labouring in the cotton mills, the match factories, and mines of the industrial revolution in 19th century Britain. |
| VIC(vi) | 'Florence Nightingale'
....visits your class to tell her story. She will answer any questions the children may like to ask. |
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LIVING IN.... TUDOR TIMES
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| TUD(i) | Children, in role as employees in a large manor house in the 1580s, prepare for a Royal Visit by Queen Elizabeth I. The experience climaxes with the Queen's arrival: the children present gifts and dance for Her Majesty. |
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LIVING IN.... STUART TIMES
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| STU(i) | Through role play, artefacts and storytelling, we experience the time of the English Civil War of 1642, to help us understand some of our challenges today with regard to sectarian conflicts, relationships and ways of life. The children experience peer-pressure, the impact of intolerance, and decision-making, in role. An ideal preparation for the 'Citizenship' curriculum. |
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LIVING IN.... ANCIENT GREECE
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| GRK(i) | A marketplace in ancient Athens - a trader takes us back to the 5th century BC - evocative artefacts and interactive storytelling, the ancient world, with its gods and myths - experiential learning at its best. |
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LIVING (AND DYING) IN.... ANCIENT EGYPT
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| EGY(i) | Everyday life is explored through legends, stories, masks, and the handling of artefacts, and a 'Participatory' Burial Ceremony! |
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Because of the interactive nature of these Lesson Support Projects they are not suitable for class/groups of larger than approximately thirty.
We can deliver two/three sessions in a day of the same Project, depending on timing. (By arrangement some Projects can sometimes be 'mixed' on a single day, depending on personnel and the artefacts/costumes to be used.)
Costs per day are variable relative to location and number of personnel to be provided, and are negotiable.
Our Living History lesson support project programme is not subsidised from donations or grants.
IF THE LESSON SUPPORT PROJECT YOU NEED IS NOT LISTED, .... DON'T DESPAIR!
WE MAY HAVE IT AVAILABLE FROM OUR 'ARCHIVES', OR IT MAY BE FEASIBLE TO TAILOR-MAKE A PROJECT TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
