YEAR 5 TOPIC BASED ACTIVITES

Term 6 topic This term’s topic will be looking at how the area in which we live in has changed over the years, and how it links with other parts of the UK and the world. Once upon a time , coal mining was important in East and many rural areas depended on the mines for work. People from different parts of the country travelled to Kent for work bringing with them their skills and their different traditions. But the coal mines have gone and these locations are now used for many other things. We are particularly going to look at colliery which is now the site of . Unfortunately, due to Covid 19, the park is currently closed but it does have a website that you can visit and I am sure that some of you have already been there. Hopefully the Mining Museum that is planned for the area will be open soon & we will be able to look at their wonderful resources. This is a new topic for Year 5 that I hope you will enjoy because it is all about the area in which you live . If you have friends and relatives that have lived in this part of Kent for many years, then interview them and find out how it has changed over the years.

The physical geography of Your village or town Betteshanger & mining How is coal formed? WW2 and Betteshanger the Garden of East Kent has seen many Find out about mining at Create an information leaflet on colliery Locate Kent on a UK map. changes since the war. Betteshanger. What type of mining this. How was mining at Draw your own sketch map How has the village or town in went on there.When did it start Bettsehanger affected by the of Kent which you live changed? Can ?When did it finish? Why did it stop? You could use this to help you WW2? Identify the main towns you find a wartime map/old Can you find accounts of people who Who were the Bevin boys? and villages , hills, coasts pictures of your area. mined at Betteshanger. What do they https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resou Why did the Bevin Boys and rivers. Create a tourist guide for your remember? rce/us2-s-73-formation-of-coal- sometimes feel ashamed of Can you also mark on it old village or town. Include a Don’t forget that mining lasted until cut-and-paste-activity-sheet being Bevin boys? mining villages - sketch map for visitors of what the 1980’s so there will be many Betteshanger, Chislet, your town or village looks like people alive today, who have Design a new banner for the Timanstone, . now. Include the main memories. Bevin boys Association Don’t forget a compass buildings, parks, churches, You could interview neighbours and and a key. attractions, nature. relatives.

Watch Episode 1 of Coalhouse Carrots and blackouts Mining Banners Bombs over Betteshanger Colliery bands were very at War Look at the Mining Banners. In WW2, bombs fell on important to mining ‘A carrot a day keeps the blackout at Could you design your own Betteshanger trapping some communities. Write a diary entry for one of bay’ banner for Betteshanger of the miners. Find out about the the children. Describing what Colliery? They were all rescued. Betteshanger colliery band they and their family had to do Carrots were used a lot in WW2 Write a diary entry of one of in a day. because they were a good sweet the miners or one of their Create an advert for one How did they feel playing substitute for sugar which was family members waiting for of their concerts – outside with the animals? rationed. them. remember to mention What was it like at school? Can you make carrot fudge/carrot Write a newspaper article their mascot! What was the food like? What biscuits. about the bombing was good about the house? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ for recipes What was bad? www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2 Youtube peopleswar/stories/42/a3491 642.shtml

Wildlife at Betteshanger Modern day Betteshanger Mining poetry Future plans for the Chocolate chip cookie fuel Create a poster of wildlife Create an advert for modern Betteshanger area mining science experiment found at the park. Betteshanger – Betteshanger Read the famous mining poem by There are What will be the https://www.twinkl.co.uk/res Country Park. Wilfred Owen – Miners advantages of these/ ource/au-t2-s-1488- Find out about their Why should people visit? What will be the disadvantages? chocolate-chip-fossil-fuel- habitats and feeding How will you make them really Can you write your own poem about Write a letter to your local MP mining-science-experiment habits. want to visit? mining? setting out whether you are in What activities take place at It could be an acrostic – favour or against these plans? Betteshanger that benefit the MINER/MINESHAFT, or could be free A tasty way of thinking about local community? verse or rhyming. Natalie Elphicke M.P. and mining! www.poetry- Deal archive.com/o/miners.html Craig Mackinlay M>P for Sandwich https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ deal/news/petition-emerges- over-new-homes-plan-227274/

Escape of the Chilean The Miner’s Way Create a logo Another mining area in the UK Visit the National Coal Mine miners 2010. With your family, walk or cycle Can you create your own black & Museum Find out about the Escape part of the Miner’s Way. Lots white logo for Betteshanger Park that Can you find another part of the of the Chilean miners in of wildlife areas and of course covers its history UK or Europe that has been There are some virtual 2019. Where in the world you will pass some of the and its modern use famous for coal mining? exhibits here and some is Chile?Use an atlas or places that form an important interesting things to look at. Google Earth to help you part of Kent’s mining history. How far is this from Kent? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ loate the country.sCan you Plan your route using an Logo for The locate where this mining Ordinance Survey map. Miner’s Way Is coal still being mined? There will be information that disaster happened? What has happened to that will help you with some of the Draw a picture of the area? other topic ideas on this leader of the mineworkers sheet. – Luis Urzua emerging from the mineshaft wrapped in the Chilean flag. Write a newspaper report announcing the successful rescue.