Historical Gower Key Stage 2 Park Wood Education Resource Notes for Teachers Contents Page Information for Teachers 1 How to use this pack 1 Risk Assessment 1 Equipment List 2 Curriculum Links 2 Cross - curricular work 3 Before you go activities 4 After your visit activities 4 Activities 1. Park Wood (Parc le Breos) 5 2. Giants Grave 6 3. Cathole Cave 7 4. Park Wood limekiln and quarries 8 Park Wood trail leaflet 9 Credits This education pack was written and designed by Audio Trails Ltd (www.audiotrails.co.uk) on behalf of Gower Landscape Partnership. The Gower Landscape Project has received funding through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013, which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, and also from the Heritage Lottery Fund under its Landscape Partnership programme. Other funding partners include the City & County of Swansea, Natural Resources Wales and The National Trust. Images were supplied and are copyright of the following individuals and organisations: Audio Trails Ltd © Copyright GGAT HER Charitable Trust Helen Grey Information for teachers Gower’s rich varied landscape has made it an attractive environment for human occupation since at least c 123,000 BC. The peninsula has been home to Stone Age hunter-gatherers, Iron Age farmers and warriors, early Christian immigrants and Norman knights. This part of the Gower app around Park Wood explores the theme ‘Historical Gower’. The trail has four stops: Giants Grave, Cathole Cave, Limekiln and quarries and Parc le Breos. At each stop oral histories, stories, photographs, facts and information are used to reveal the areas fascinating historical past. Also at each stop there is an ‘Activity Point’ where text is revealed to engage children in independent learning. How to use this pack This education pack can be used on its own or to complement the Gower app. It contains information and activity ideas at key points along the Park Wood trail around the theme of ‘Historical Gower’. The pack supports curriculum planning, highlighting how the activity suggestions are relevant to a range of learning outcomes in Key Stage 2. There are also additional activities that can be carried out before and after a visit to enrich your topic planning. You may wish to follow the entire trail and carry out the suggested activities at each point of interest. However, the activities can be done in any order and you can take any safe route from one activity to the other. You may want to dip into the pack, picking and choosing particular activities and places along the trail. You may wish to come back on another day to carry out further activities in diferent places along the trail. The activities and app are completely flexible, allowing you to adapt ideas and routes depending on your needs. A route map leaflet is appended to the back of this pack. Risk Assessment Teachers and group leaders are responsible for carrying out their own risk assessments prior to the visit, in accordance with guidance issued by local authorities. We recommend teachers undertake a familiarisation visit in order to write the risk assessment and plan activities before bringing a group on the walk. It is essential a thorough risk assessment is carried out before the trip. Please follow the Countryside Code and consider the impact your visit will have on the environment around you. For further information go to www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk. 1 Equipment List iPads (running iOS7+ and preferably with GPS) with the Gower app downloaded Magnifying glass Writing and drawing materials i.e. clipboard, paper, sketchbook, charcoal, pastels etc Camera / video recorder – one can be found on the iPad Compass – one can be downloaded for free on to your iPad Torch – one can be found on the iPad Tape measures Curriculum Links History Programme of Study Skills Chronological awareness: 1 & 2 Historical knowledge and understanding: 1, 2 & 3 Interpretations of history: 1 Historical enquiry: 1, 3 & 4 Organisation and communication: 1 & 2 Range Study • the daily life of people living in the past • investigations into the history around them and into the life of people at diferent times and places in the past Ask and answer the questions • what do you know about life at this time; how do you know this and how can you find out more? • what was life like for rich and for poor people, for men, women and children, e.g. houses, food and farming, transport, education, clothes, celebrations, pastimes? • what impact did people of this time have on their environment? 2 Cross - curricular work The trail around Penclawdd links naturally to the history curriculum but there are many ways in which it can support and enrich work in other curriculum areas. In PSE children will be: • Taking an active interest in the world around them • Understanding aspects of the cultural heritage and diversity of Wales • Using ICT safely • Understanding the range of jobs carried out by people in their community • Understanding that our actions have consequences In Maths children will be: In ICT children will be: • Solving mathematical • Using the Gower app on a mobile problems device independently and • Collecting, using, collaboratively presenting and • Using the app to explore Park Wood interpreting data across a variety of subjects In English children will be: • Responding to visual, audio and written material • Speaking and listening in pairs and in groups as well as individually • Gathering information about Parkmill Wood from a range of sources • Using the visit as a stimuli for various writing projects In Geography children will be: • Identifying and investigating the geographical location of Parkmill Wood • Following directions and routes • Using a map of Parkmill Wood • Asking questions about Parkmill Wood • Carrying out practical investigations In Cwricwlwm Cymreig children In Art and Design children will be: will be: • Inspired by images in diferent historical • Developing and applying their contexts knowledge and understanding of • Investigating how diferent cultures and the cultural, economic, periods can influence their own ideas environmental and historical • Experimenting with diferent techniques characteristics of Wales 3 Before you go activities After your visit activities Research the Discuss how you think Park Wood should be people who built cared for so it is protected for future Giants Grave? generations? Write pages from a non-fiction book Use the photographs and sketches taken at with the following Giants Grave to create an enlarged site plan headings: How did for display. Write detailed descriptions to they live? What did accompany each image and to explain what they eat? What did they each picture shows. believe in? Recreate Giants Grave using various media Look at Parc le Breos on maps. Trace the park including clay. boundary. Make your own ‘rock art’. You could make Make a list of what you would expect to see natural paintbrushes out of collected leaves, as you explore the area. twigs or stone to paint simple animal outlines on your school playground or pavement or Research and create a timeline plotting when collected stones or crumpled paper. settlers lived in the area. Write a newspaper report about the day the Research the Le Breos family, the powerful reindeer carving was discovered in Cathole family who owned the land here. Draw their Cave. Interview the archaeologist who family tree. discovered it, Dr George Nash. What does an archaeologist do? Research Write reports about the Stone Age hunter- their job. Write a job advertisement detailing gatherers under the following headings. What the personal qualities and skills required to do we know? What can we ‘guess’? What will carry out the job. You could even apply for the we never know? job by writing a formal letter of application in response to the job advertisement. Together Write a story about how one of the read the letters of application and shortlist hunter-gatherers died and what happened to candidates. Conduct an interview and choose them after. the new class archaeologist. Use the Internet to search news reports and articles about the important archaeological discoveries found on Gower, or across Wales. Create a ‘Gower/Welsh Treasures’ timeline of finds. Explore the route you will take to Park Wood using digital maps. Work out how far away it is and how long it will take you to get there. Re- search the modes of transport you could use to get there and how much each will cost. 4 1. Park Wood (Parc le Breos) Read the app text and listen to the audio to Measure the distance. Compare your get more information about Parc le Breos. measurements with a friend and then try it again with another tree. How tall is the tallest tree? App text and activity Art & Design: Using nature and the outdoors History: Communicating ideas and opinions for inspiration. through talk. Choose the tree you think is the most interesting and sketch it. Take bark and leaf The powerful John Le Breos, Marcher Lord of rubbings to help you identify the tree when Gower, established this medieval deer park in you get back to class. the 13th century. The park had a secure fence all around it to keep the deer in and to keep Collect materials fallen from the tree and poachers out. Lords would mount their horse create a tree collage under the trees and hunt game here. Military training also took branches. Make a record of the wildlife you place with archery and horsemanship practice. discovered in the tree and any other Imagine you are a visiting Lord and have been interesting features. Do you have any invited to joint the hunt. Tell your partner what questions you would like to research about you saw as you galloped through the park.