This is an exciting project inspired by the life of a Victorian child prisoner. It features a play created and performed by 26 young people. This is the first time that young people have helped us to build an accessible resource for Learning Curve. Relevant to KS3 Victorian Britain, the play and historical documents that shaped the project also offer cross-curricular links to Citizenship and English.
Onsite Education Service preparation materials for our videoconference on the causes of the English Civil Wars are now available online. Students take part in a debate with actors in role as Puritan Adam Wright and Royalist Bishop Richard Hyde.
The latest programme to feature The National Archives and The Learning Curve is now available online. "Using Institutions" gives an excellent insight into how schools use National Archives resources.
http://www.teachers.tv/video/13819
Mark Conroy is Head of History at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove, Sussex. The school is a large (2000 students) and successful comprehensive, which has been designated as a Humanities Specialist College.
Our History department has been in the fortunate position to have a close working relationship with The National Archives for many years, and make full use of the very broad range of resources available to schools. Our Year 9s have taken part in the WWI Videoconferences entitled ‘All Pals Together: A First War Soldier's Story’, interviewing an actor playing Private Henry Fairhurst. Our Year 7 Gifted and Talented students have taken part in a Domesday role-play.
We use Learning Curve resources for starters or plenaries, for example the Tudor joust game can be a fun way to finish a lesson. In fact we use many of the games in this way. Learning Curve sources are also used for project work, for example Year 9 students complete a PowerPoint project on the First World War making use of the extensive and interesting images from the site.
The department also uses the site for whole lessons. For Year 8, The Tudors exhibition has been a particularly fruitful area. We have used the section on ‘How did Tudor people have fun?’ . Students looked at the embroidery, and tried to ascertain how people were having fun, and compared this information to other resources.
From the Education Service area of the site, the department uses sources from the Tudor imagery and Henry VIII workshop . The students need a little help with the individual word cards from the description of the joust, but giving them clues provides this. Once they have these clues, the students complete the activity quickly, and with obvious interest.
I hope The National Archives continues to produce a wide variety of interesting resources and we very much look forward to continuing our very positive and successful relationship with the education team.
Identity Papers? - The role of archives in teaching diversity and Citizenship
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 From 9.15am - 5pm
At Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London, SW1H 9NH
A conference for archivists and educational practitioners with David Lammy MP as keynote speaker.
For more information visit www.archiveawareness.com
March
5th March 1953: Stalin Dies. Was he a hero or villain?
7th March 1936: German troops marched into the Rhineland. This was Hitler's first illegal act in foreign relations since coming to power in 1933. How did the British Government react?
25th March 1807: The Abolition of the Slave Trade act was passed, which outlawed slavery in the British Empire. 2007 marks the 200th anniversary.
April
4th April 1968: Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
15th April 1942: The island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in recognition of its 'heroism and devotion'. How did the Second World War affect people’s lives in the British Empire Home Front?
22nd April 1509: Henry VIII ascends the throne of England, aged 18. How did he go about his daily life?
May
13th May 1787: Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with the First Fleet, to establish a penal colony in Australia. Why were convicts transported overseas?
31st May 1916: The Battle of Jutland was the largest Naval battle in The Great War. Could the huge loss of life have been prevented?
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