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Lower School Humanities (from September 2008)

Year 3

Me here then 
Infant school life, families The children will recall and record aspects of their own school and family life as an introduction to recent history.  
Me here now

Investigating our local area

Junior school, neighbourhood

The children will develop geographical ideas and skills by studying their own locality, including the weather and microclimates. Local Maps from postcodes
   A Trip to Cleethorpes UK Street maps
 
Recycling The children will use the school buildings, grounds and immediate locality to investigate environmental issues and improvements. Photographs,facts and our recycling competition.
Them here then 

 

Links for Britain since 1948

from St Andrews School Dorset

 

 

The British Empire

Why did some West Indians want to come to Britain?

The Windrush Experience

 

20th Century Inventions

Computers

 

 

Britain Since 1948

Decades from the BBC 

Retro 50s, 60s and 70s

Television in the 1950s

 Telephones

 
The children will learn about the reasons for and results of the changes in British life since 1948. They will enlist the help of their grandparents to investigate in depth aspects of change in British life, eg popular culture. Cadbury's Chocolate

 

Planes since 1950 Home technology History of the Mini car

Romans Rule

What the Romans think of the Celts

Romans
 

 

Virtual dig

 

Crickweb Roman activities

 

The Romans - BBC

The children consider the effects of invasion and settlement of the Romans on Britain.  

 

Boudicca 

 Roman Times from Nettlesworth Primary School

 

 The Romans - Coxhoe Primary school

 The Romans from Snaith Primary School

 

Year 4

Them here now

Citizenship

The children will find out about the work of the people who helps us in the local community. They will recognise that there are different people in the community who can help us in different ways at different times, identify and describe some of the people who can help us, identify jobs they do at home and school and how they contribute to the life of their communities.
 
   Contrasting Locality- Louth  

The children will study a locality in the UK, which contrasts with their own area.

Louth Survey

Multimap
Them here then
Victorian Cleethorpes The children will investigate some of the ways their local area changed during the Victorian era, they will use the local area to explore characteristic features of Victorian times. Cleethorpes History
 
Village settlements in the area The children will learn how settlements in the local area have developed over a period of time and how early settlers provided many of the settlements used today. The children will make links between how and where they spend their leisure, recreation and working time. They will also develop the theme of settlement within the school's local area.
  UK Street maps Local Maps from postcodes
 
Home Front from Snaith Primary
 
 Britain at War from Nettlesworth Primary School
 BBC World War Two Children
Britain since 1930 -
World War 2
 Imperial War Museum

 

Make and Spend
 Sainsbury Virtual Museum WW2
The children find out about the effects of the Second World War on children in their local area, nationally and internationally.
London at War

 Eden Camp
The Children's War IWM
The Vikings from Nettlesworth Primary School
 
The Vikings - BBC

Jorvik Viking Centre

 Vikings

The Vikings - Coxhoe Primary School
 Viking from Snaith Primary School
 The children find out how the Viking influence spread through the world and how they eventually settled in Britain.
 View our Viking visitor

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