Local history
Local History
Local history is a really important part of our history curriculum here at Farsley Springbank and as such we have embedded some local history into each of our year groups. Learning about our own locality is a key part of understanding our heritage and we are lucky as we have so many amazing opportunities for studying it here!
In Reception, the children begin their history journey by learning about the most local history of all - themselves and their families!
In Year 1, the children build on their understanding of their own personal history by learning all about the time in history when their grandparents were young (the 1960s). During this unit, the children look at how Farsley has changed since the 1960s and get to see lots of local artefacts and images from the 1960's during their showcase! In addition to this unit, the children in Year 1 also look at Isabella Bird, James Cooke and Helen Sharman, explorers through the ages from Yorkshire!
In Year 2, when comparing nurses in their medicine through the ages unit, the children find out more about a local nurse, Nellie Spindler, who was a nurse on the front line during World War One and compare her to Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Additionally, in their history of the seaside topic later on in the year, they also focus on one of our nearest seaside towns, Scarborough, when looking at the history of these resorts.
In Year 3, the children use historical sources which pertain to our local area when learning about Prehistoric Britain so that they can see how our area was a part of this area of history.
In Year 4, the children learn about life in the North of England and Yorkshire during the time when the Romans were in Britain. During this unit, the children visit the Discovery Centre in Leeds to take part in their workshop on the Romans in Yorkshire where they not only learn the story of our local Queen, Cartimandua, but also spend some time looking at real-life artefacts from that time that were found in the local area.
In Year 5, the children learn about the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings where they take a trip to Murton Park in York to find out more about the Viking invasion and York's role in helping to establish Danelaw.
In Year 6, the children further develop their knowledge of our local area by learning a little bit about what happened to Yorkshire and our own smaller local area during the two World wars. The children spend time learning about how the war directly impacted Farsley by following the journey of a citizen from our village to the First World War and then by looking at the fate of the Yorkshire Pals brigades.
Year 4 Industrial Revolution Workshop
Year 5 World War One Workshops
