Enquiry What lies behind our local buildings?

Enquiry This enquiry focuses on local buildings and what they reveal about the ways in which people’s lives have changed in our Focus locality. The enquiry begins with a series of lessons that develop pupils’ knowledge of the local built environment and teaches them how to research their local buildings. Pupils then do independent research on a building or buildings in their own town or village. The conceptual focus must be on change over time e.g.  Changes in the whole town or village  Changes in a single building: parish church, house, pub, school, railway station...  Changes in the churchyard  Changes in the high street  Changes in a group of buildings: schools, pubs, shops, houses, workshops, community buildings (leisure) Pupils decide on the best way to present their research e.g. PP, virtual tour, exhibition, booklet, documentary film....

Lesson Lesson focus and learning activities Resources

1 How can we find out about changes in our locality?

 Clues from archaeology. Group work on archaeological finds: What was Archaeological finds it? When was it from? What does it tell us? Are any particularly special? Sequencing of artefacts to reinforce chronology PP images of local buildings  Clues from buildings. PP images of local buildings: What was it? Where was it? What does it tell us? Are any particularly special? Sequencing of buildings to reinforce chronology  Explain the enquiry. Emphasise that pupils live in one of the most special areas in the world in terms of the range and diversity of historic buildings. Pupils can focus on a single building or a whole town, but they must explain change over time. They can present their work in any appropriate format.  Explain where to find information – books, booklets and leaflets in local shops and libraries, talk to people, on-line research. Demonstrate: Somerset Online Heritage Resources (Links to: Somerset Historic Environment Record, Somerset Urban Archaeological Surveys, Somerset Historic Postcard Collection, First and Second Edition OS Maps for Somerset)

2 How has Langport changed over time?

 Fieldwork in Langport. Pupils annotate photos of buildings and decide: 1. Langport Town Trail Resources The period when the building was first constructed. 2. How the building has changed over time 3. What this tells us about how people’s lives in Langport have changed over time.

3 Whose village or town is richest in Roman remains?

 PP images of Iron Age hill forts, Oppida at Ilchester, Glastonbury Lake PP images Iron Age Villages and Iron Age finds. Pair discussion and feedback: What can we work out about our locality in the Iron Age? (dense settlement and very rich – an important area for the Durotriges)  Map – Iron Age and Roman sites in Somerset. Whose village or town A3 map Iron Age and Roman sites in might be the richest in Roman remains? Pupils make suggestions using Somerset map.  Ilchester – an important Roman town. Pupils identify Roman features PP images Ilchester, mosaics and from PP images. Mosaic workshops in Ilchester made mosaics for Roman local villas villas. What can pupils work out about villas from the images?  Tell pupils story of discovery of Low Ham villa and watch clip of Time Team dig www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team Romans on the Range High Ham 20 Feb 2011 Series 18 Episode 3.  Remind pupils how to search for Roman remains in their own village or town (Urban Surveys, Somerset Historic Environment Record)

4 What lies behind our medieval buildings?

 What medieval buildings remain in Britain? Watch Flying Through History, DVD Flying Through History Prog. 2 Programme 2. Pupils note different medieval buildings  Do any medieval buildings exist in your village or town? Pair discussion and feedback.  Nearly all of us will have a medieval parish church. Our locality had some PP images South Petherton Church of the most spectacular medieval parish churches in England. How can you investigate your parish church?  Case study of South Petherton: Investigating outside and inside. Pupils Document packs: South Pertherton work out what they might find using PP images. Investigating through Church documents. Pupils use document packs to find out how the church has changed. Handouts:

5 What lies behind our early modern buildings?

 What Tudor buildings remain in Britain? Watch Flying Through History DVD Flying Through History Prog. 3 Programme 3. Pupils note different buildings.  Do any Tudor buildings exist in your village or town? Pair discussion and feedback.  Pair challenge – can students identify the local early modern buildings in PP images the photographs  Case study of Ilchester gaol: how did this change over time? PP images  Summarize types and features of of early modern buildings.

7 What lies behind our Victorian buildings?

 What Victorian buildings remain in Britain? Watch Flying Through History DVD Flying Through History Prog. 5 Programme 5. Pupils note different buildings.  What Victorian buildings exist in your village or town? Pair discussion and feedback.  Investigating your town or village in Victorian times. Case study of PP images Victorian photographs of Langport: what can we learn from photographs, maps and documents? Langport Pair-work on documents and feedback.  On-line research - Victorian buildings, photos and maps for individual A3 copies of 1886 OS map communities (Google: Somerset Online Heritage Resources and follow the links) Laptops

8, 9, 10 Pupil research and presentations