NATIONAL CURRICULUM SUBJECTS ON THE WYAAS WEBSITE
HISTORY AT KS1 AND KS2
Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago?
There's plenty of material about houses at various points in the past. Try looking at some of these:
West Yorkshire before the Romans (Iron Age Houses)
Life in a Roman Villa
Settlements in Anglo-Saxon West Yorkshire
Tudor Houses
Historic Houses of West Yorkshire Leaflets (Tudor to Victorian)
These would be useful in tackling the question of How were houses a long time ago different from today? (Different construction materials, presence/absence of chimneys, size of windows). Images could be downloaded and used with other resources for sequencing activities or to build a timeline of houses.
Unit 6A: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Roman case study
There is large amount of information on the Romans in The Romans in West Yorkshire.
Introduction
West Yorkshire before the Romans deals with the lifestyle of the Celts.
Cartimandua tells the story of West Yorkshire's own Celtic queen - a very useful comparison to the story of Boudicca.
Roman Forts
Life in a Roman Town gives an overview of Roman urban life. There are also separate entries on the important settlements at , Castleford, Leeds, and Wetherby.
Life in a Roman Villa
Religion in Roman West Yorkshire
Photographic Index which allows you to download dozens of images of sites, artefacts and reconstruction drawings to use in your classroom.
Later Roman Britain, which discusses the effects of the Roman withdrawal from Britain, forms part of our area on Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in West Yorkshire.
Unit 6B: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? An Anglo-Saxon study.
Unit 6C: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Viking case study
Britons Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in West Yorkshire
covers the period under investigation in both History study Unit 6B and 6C. The site has the following main sections.
Introduction
Sources of evidence can be used to discuss such questions as How do we know about the past? and to discuss the reliability or bias of evidence.
Later Roman Britain
The British Kingdom of Elmet The Saxon takeover of the country was a matter of gradual rather then instant change. This page describes what we know of West Yorkshire in the early 600s immediately prior to its conquest by King Edwin of Northumbria.
Anglo-Saxon West Yorkshire gives a lot of detailed evidence about the Historic background for the period, including pages on both settlements and religion.
Viking Rule in West Yorkshire gives details the struggle for control of the north of England and includes information on the important battles of Brunanburh (possibly Brinsworth near Rotherham) and Castleford.
There is also an interactive timeline referring readers to the major events of the period.
Unit 8: What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?
The Tudors in West Yorkshire gives a lot of background information about the Tudor period in our region including entries on Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, , and Wakefield. The entry on Tudor Houses describes the houses of some of the richest people in West Yorkshire during the period.
Unit 11: What was life like for children living in Victorian Britain?
There is nothing directly about the lives of Victorian children on the WYAAS website, but an idea of the environment in which they lived and worked can be gained from pages such as:
The Industrial Archaeology of West Yorkshire
Historical summaries of Conservation Areas describe the growth of a number of West Yorkshire's local communities.
Churchyard Survey provides a lesson plan which enables pupils to study life expectancy during the Victorian period through information recorded from headstones in a local churchyard.
Unit 12: How did life change in our locality during Victorian times?
See suggestions for Unit 11.
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