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History day

Course description This unique field trip looks at the way Ryer's Down has been utilised through the last five thousand years. A truly innovative day includes the reconstruction of a full sized medieval longhouse so that the students can picture what the site looked like eight hundred years ago. They can undertake team building challenges to build the longhouse and then take a guided tour of the house and imagine what it would have been like to live there all those years ago. The students can take part in many of the tasks that the children would have such as building wattle and daub fences, brining in the cattle, hunting and making bread. A great opportunity to bring history alive on this beautiful site.

 

Trip: History day

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 30 children

Ability level(s): Key Stage 1 | Key Stage 2

Terrain and distance: Heathland  |  0 Miles

Equipment list : Warm clothes, water proofs, walking boots, lunch and a drink.

This activity day has the following curriculum link(s)

Geography: Ask and Answer the Questions - Where is this place/environment? What is it like and why? What is happening and why? - How is this place the same as or different from other places/environments and why? Is it always the same? Why is it changing? - How have people affected this place/environment? How can I and other people look after this environment? KS2. Geography: Knowledge and Understanding of the World To experience the familiar world through investigating the indoor and outdoor environment. KS1. Geography: Locating Places, Environments and Patterns 1. Identify and locate places and environments using globes, atlases, and maps, e.g. use co-ordinates and four-figure references. 2. Follow directions, estimate and calculate distances, e.g. follow map and ground routes, calculate map-to-ground distances. 3. Use maps, imagery and ICT to find and present locational information, e.g. draw sketch maps using symbols and keys. Interpret maps, and photographs including oblique, aerial and satellite images. KS2. Geography: Places and People Identify natural features, e.g. rivers, hills, beaches, and the human features, e.g. buildings, roads, bridges, of their own locality. KS1. Geography: Places and People Recognise how people’s actions can improve or damage the environment. KS1. History: Chronological Awareness  (1) Use timelines to sequence events. KS2 and KS3. History: Historical Enquiry  (3) Independent use of a range of historical sources. What impact did people of this time have on their environment? KS2 and KS3.

Trip: History day

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 30 children

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