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• Around our School: Liverpool

  Children from Year Two studied the history of West Derby Village, now a suburb of Liverpool, over the last 100 years.

  Key Stage: 1

  Subject: History

• Heritage Schools Case Study: What Was Life Like In Anglo-Saxon Bristol?

  Children discover how their local area could have been settled by the Anglo-Saxons and what archaeology can tell us about the past.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Our Place - Local Area Characterisation

  Primary school children used maps and worked with a planner and an architect to decide what is significant in their local area.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Why are so many of our street names linked to an Oxford College?

  Primary school children research their local estate which leads to a 3 day residential visit to Oxford working with the archivist at Magdalen College.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Why is the Hippodrome such a special building?

  Pupils research the history of the Hippodrome and take part in circus skills workshops as they re-live its heyday.

  Key Stage: 1

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Our Dagenham - How was the area?

  Year 9 students explored the area using maps and aerial photographs then took a trail to develop their awareness of continuity and change in Dagenham.

  Key Stage: 3

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: What was the Watchet Tragedy?

  Children visit a headstone and use the historic environment record and archive newspapers to uncover a tragic story.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Belle Vue - Showground of the world!

  A whole school project in which students discovered the amazing story of Belle Vue entertainment complex.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Finding out about the soldiers of Cavendish Primary School

  KS2 students used primary sources to investigate lives of soldiers, who died in the First World War, and who are remembered on their school memorial.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Remembering Together

  Schools collected soldiers' names from local war memorials and used online research to build up a picture of their lives and held a remembrance event.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Local Study and Women's Rights

  A primary school researched the story of their locality and found an interesting story about a Women’s Rights Activist.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Rockliffe Remembers

  KS2 pupils research the school during WWI and link with the national centenary commemorations.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: The architecture of Wallsend

  Pupils from Burnside School learned how to identify and record key historical architectural features in their town of Wallsend.

  Key Stage: 3

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Ketley School's history and the Industrial Revolution

  KS2 pupils used a visit to the old school building and a heritage walk to build a detailed picture of Ketley’s past and industrial history.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Wythenshaw in World War One

  Students at Manchester Health Academy investigated the significance of their local FWW memorial and the experience of one soldier remembered on it.

  Key Stage: 3

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Window on the World

  Children took part in a workshop to learn about the historical importance of a museum locality through the creation of a large scale map.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Producing a film 'Exploring Your Coal Mining Heritage'

  A Case Study showing how ex-miners and children worked together to share their knowledge about coal mining

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: Enriching The List, Enriching Learning

  School children learn about their local listed buildings.

  Key Stage: 1

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Heritage Schools Case Study: 'What is special about our village?'

  A two day investigation into the local heritage of Crowcombe village in West Somerset.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: Heritage Schools

• Exploring your local gas heritage

  Uncover evidence of your local gas heritage, including where it was made and how it was used to light the way.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: History

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