Local History

Designed to complement any scheme in practice in schools, this collection of attractively-illustrated activities will provide an invaluable resource for all primary school teachers. This pack supports children through from Key Stage 1, where much history work will be set into local contexts, to Key Stage 2 where Local History is Study Unit 5 in the National Curriculum programme of study. The activities contain a mixture of generic and specific photocopiable sheets, but are applicable to every child no matter where they live. They are designed to help both teachers and children to identify the kind of local sources that can be used to increase knowledge of local history - including buildings and sites, drawings and photographs, written sources, maps, archives, place names, monuments, and even tombstones. A range of activities are included to allow for progression and differentation across the key stages.