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Changes Within Living Memory

Children are introduced to historical concepts through exploring the ways in which life has changed over the time of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.  They develop a chronology of domestic life, clothes, transport, communication methods, toys, books, food and music.

 

What clothes did your parents, grandparents and great grandparents wear?

What did your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents wear?

Ian Bland Poetry Day

Subject Links

Use these external links to explore more about this topic in school or at home:

 

Click here to find facts, videos and games about toys in the past

Click here to explore a 1950s living room to see which objects do not belong!

Click here to learn about children in the past

Click here to see toys from the past at the V&A museum in London

 

 


  • St Hilda's CE (VA) Primary School
  • Whittaker Lane, Prestwich, Manchester, Lancashire, M25 1HA
  • Email: sthildas@bury.gov.uk
  • 0161 7986227
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