Free downloadable teaching resource for KS 2/3 History
Developed alongside teachers, this resource pack helps to embed literacy and key skills development into History, using original Victorian documents with a focus on Manchester, Salford and the North-West.
What's in the pack?
Evidence Resources
Over 50 specially selected extracts from original Victorian documents, including reports, interviews with children, poetry, pictures and stories.
View a sample of the Evidence Resources (1MB)
Download the Evidence Resources (103 pages, 13MB)
Listen to two Victorian poems about children (below)
Supporting Resources
A selection of supporting documents that will help you interpret the material with your class.
View a list of the Supporting Resources (532KB)
Download the Supporting Resources (3MB)
Scheme of Work
A four-week Scheme of Work, suggesting tried and tested activities and learning objectives for literacy, history and key skills. Please note that this refers in detail to the curriculum which was in place at the time the Scheme of Work was developed in 2009, and so many of the links are no longer available and/or relevant to the current curriculum. Relevant curriculum documents as of 2018 are: History programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2, National curriculum in England and English programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 National curriculum in England.
Download the 2009 Scheme of Work (122KB)
Powerpoint activity
Using some of the Evidence Resources, this powerpoint encourages pupils to explore the different perspectives of sending children to work. This can develop into a Persuasive Writing activity.
'Should Children work a 30hour Week?' Download Powerpoint Activity (9MB)
Pack Contents Page
This page details everything in this pack. Download the Contents Page (57KB)
Poetry Activity
Using poems and pictures in the 'Evidence Resources', this activity is a creative way for pupils to generate ideas for their own 'Victorian Poetry'. Download the Poetry Activity (1MB)
Listen here to 2 poems about children in Victorian Britain.
Written in Victorian times and read here by Maxine Peake.
Factory Girl to a More Fortunate Playmate, Anon. (1min 27)
The Frost on the Window Pane, by E. Byam Wyke. (2 mins)
Comments...
"The glossaries are very useful for helping the children understand the texts, and it is really useful that the questions encourage the children to think for themselves about what the varying reasons were for child labour during the Victorian times. Thank you -for a useful, interesting and free teaching aid!"
Emma Horne, teacher.
"This looks like a very useful resource for a range of subjects at Key Stage 3, as well as Key Stage 2"
Cathy Fitzwilliam Pipe, teacher.
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