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different types of evidence – the education officer will guide pupils to consider the 4 W’s: who, what, why, and when – key questions about a document and its creation. For the second part of the workshop, pupils work in groups looking at different types of documents, including a map of London created just after the Great Fire, a Victorian criminal register complete with photographs of child convicts, a Plea Roll taken from the reign of Henry VIII and propaganda posters used during the Second World War. Pupils are given no prior information about any of these documents, but have to use their questioning techniques as historians to try and determine what each document is, when it was made and how it can tell us about the past. Pupils are given a workbook to fill in with the results of their investigation
For the final part of the workshop, pupils are given the opportunity to feed back on their findings and time to ask the education officer any questions they would like about the documents they have been investigating.
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"A really useful session, led by experts who were skilled at getting students to analyse documents. All of our students were engaged throughout, and asked lots of relevant and interesting questions. A fantastic foundation for future work in the classroom"
KS 2 teacher
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