Life in a Suitcase Session Information
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Suitable For KS2
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Session Length 45-60 minutes
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Cost £2.00 per child
What was life like as a Tram driver in the early 1900s? With our educator in role in our Learning Centre, travel back to around the year 1910 and delve into the suitcase of a tram worker. Discover the uniforms drivers and conductors had to where, learn about how trams were driven, solve monetary problems and delve into the strict rules drivers and conductors faced. Children will be encouraged to think about how jobs have changed, issues faced and consider if it was the job for them! Using real artefacts and some children to help with demonstrations, the museum led session will enable your pupils to think about the lives of those employed on the tramway.
Objectives:
- Children will be able to explain some of the similarities and differences between jobs in Britain in the Edwardian period through the First World War.
- Children will begin to develop an understanding of change, workers’ rights and make connections with their own lives.
National Curriculum Links
History
Key Stage 2
- a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066
- a significant turning point in British history, for example, the first railways or the Battle of Britain