NATIONAL CURRICULUM SUBJECTS ON THE WYAAS WEBSITE

GEOGRAPHY KS1 and KS2

Unit 1 - Around our school - the local area

There are obvious links her with History Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago? There is a lot material about houses in the past at various points on the website but the most useful for the geography topic might be:

Historic Houses of West Yorkshire Leaflets
These deal with a range of houses (Tudor to Victorian) which are now museums and may be suitable places to visit.

Unit 6: Investigating our local area

Historical summaries of conservation areas
These pages describe the development of some of our historic communities and draw attention to buildings of architectural interest.

Unit 9: Villages Settlers

Place Name Evidence
This page, from Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in West Yorkshire, gives a brief outline of the most common place name elements and how they reflect the languages of different groups of settlers. Lists of West Yorkshire examples are given.

Historical summaries of conservation areas
These pages chart the development of our historic towns and villages and draw attention to buildings of particular architectural interest.