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• What sort of toys did my great grandparents play with?

  Looking back at the sort of toys and games used by our ancestors.

  Key Stage: 1

  Subject: History

• What do you think happened just before this photograph was taken?

  Exploring how a photograph is a snapshot of one moment in time.

  Key Stage: 1

  Subject: Art

• What was life like for Victorian children? Did it get any better?

  Working conditions for Victorian children

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: History

• How can a photograph help us to imagine life during the Blitz?

  Exploring life during the Blitz.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: History

• What was housing like for the Victorian middle classes?

  Explore the wide range of different types of houses and locations that the Victorian middle classes lived in.

  Key Stage: 2

• Were the Victorians like us?

  Analysing a selection of Victorian photographs to provide the answer.

  Key Stage: 2

• What can we learn about shapes from buildings?

  Understanding shapes by exploring building design and decoration.

  Key Stage: 1

• Can we be room detectives?

  Looking for clues to understand the history of the household objects and owners.

  Key Stage: 1

• Can a photograph tell us about relationships between different people?

  Understanding the interactions between people from an image.

  Key Stage: 2

• What can archaeological evidence tell us about Roman life?

  Finding evidence to describe Roman life.

  Key Stage: 2

• What can Victorian buildings tell us about how the Victorians thought?

  Did Victorians design buildings for specific purposes and as a reflection of their values and attitudes.

  Key Stage: 3

• What can the inscription on a grave tell us about attitudes to black people?

  Clues about the attitudes of people at the time it was written.

  Key Stage: 3

• What can archaeological evidence tell us about the Anglo-Saxons?

  Finding evidence to describe Anglo- Saxon life.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: History

• What was life like for Victorian school children?

  Gain knowledge and an appreciation of the Victorian school day.

  Key Stage: 2

  Subject: History

• How real was the threat of invasion 1538-47?

  Examine Henry VIII's foreign policy and its impact on England.

  Key Stage: 5

• How did William the Conqueror secure his control over Saxon England?

  Examine how William the Conqueror achieved Norman control of England.

  Key Stage: 4

• Were the Edwardians like us?

  Compare Edwardian life with life today.

  Key Stage: 2

• What can we learn about food in the past from a photograph of a seaside picnic?

  Comparing seaside holidays in the past with ones today.

  Key Stage: 1

• To what extent were women’s lives already changing before WW1?

  To what extent were women’s lives already changing before WW1?

  Key Stage: 4

• What did people do at the seaside in the past?

  Comparing seaside holidays in the past with ones today.

  Key Stage: 1