Session 1
Indoor activities allow pupils to travel back to the industrial era by practicing investigative skills using historical photographs to interpret local settlement and find out how and why the area has changed. A sense of chronology can be gained using the time-line model and by using their senses pupils discover what the local area was like as a result of river industry. Using specially designed sorting board’s pupils learn how to distinguish between different materials and identify and date artefacts.
Session 2
Pupils turn detective as they scour the riverside for evidence of riverside settlement. Fieldwork on the foreshore involves collecting and identifying historic artefacts as evidence of past river use. Pupils will have the chance to sketch Kew Bridge, allowing them to compare and contrast the past and present.
