Education

Two teachers packs have been developed to allow schools and educational organisations to fully benefit from Cotton Threads.

Full instructions on downloading the packs are detailed below. For further information about obtaining a pack on CD, please email: archives@bury.gov.uk

Teachers Pack - Key Stage 2

The sessions have been created to support and enrich the Victorian theme studied at Key Stage Two. The activities cover many aspects of the History curriculum as well as addressing several other curriculum areas, promoting excellence and enjoyment. The sessions can be used as individual or as a series of lessons.

Ms Cathy Shaw, August, 2008

Downloads - Key Stage 2

Click on the links below to download the teachers pack and zip files containing the sources. To view the PDF, you can download Adobe Reader for free at http://www.adobe.com. Users of Windows 2000 or XP can view the ZIP file as a folder once it's been downloaded. For non-Windows, a third party tool such as http://www.stuffit.com can be tried for 30 days.

Teachers Pack (PDF)

Source A (0.01mb, ZIP)

Source B (0.008mb, ZIP)

Source C (33mb, ZIP)

Source D (12.3mb, ZIP)

Source E (23.8mb, ZIP)

Source F (15.4mb, ZIP)

Source G (4.8mb, ZIP)

Source H (9.3mb, ZIP)

Teachers Pack - Key Stage 3

These downloadable sessions have been designed to facilitate the implementation of the new History curriculum from September 2008 at Key Stage 3. They provide the opportunity to 'investigate aspects of personal, family or local history and how they relate to a broader historical context' and 'make links between history and other subjects and areas of the curriculum, including citizenship' (QCA: The National Curriculum 2007).

Pupils will have access to a variety of archive materials to help them investigate and understand how they can be used to answer questions about the past. "It has been a rewarding process for myself and my colleagues using the archives to produce this series of lessons, not only for us as teachers but also as historians. In our pilot session to test the feasibility of this resource the student response was so overwhelmingly enthusiastic that we are committed to working to produce more learning opportunities for our students using local archives."

Maria Brothers, Head of History Bury Church of England High School August, 2007