History
Intent
We want all our children to be inspired with curiosity to find out about the past. We want to provide our children with a broad and balanced view of history to see the diversity of human experience and understand more about themselves as individuals and members of society.
Useful websites:
- BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids
- https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3620/primary-topic-websites
- Greek myths for children to write their own: https://greece.mrdonn.org/myths.html
- See Florence Nightingale artefacts: https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/collections/
- The British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org
- A brief history of toys to get you started: http://www.localhistories.org/toys.html
Local places of interest:
- Southchurch Hall
- Southend Museum and Planetarium
- Prittlewell Priory
- Southend and Leigh as Victorian seaside resorts
- Southend Pier and Mulberry Harbour
- Old Leigh Town and churchyard
- Hadleigh Castle
- Tilbury Fort
- Colchester and Colchester Castle
- Rochester Castle and Cathedral
- Chatham Dockyard
- The Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
- The British Museum
- Sutton Woo, Woodbridge Suffolk
- Museum of East Anglian Life
- Imperial War Museum, London
- Duxford Airfield and Imperial War Museum
- Greenwich – National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark
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