For Key Stage 1 and 2
Enrich your pupils understanding of history with dynamic theatre and education workshops that bring to life the people and places of the past. MakeBelieve Arts works with your pupils as they experience what life was like during key moments in history, meet famous people from the past and share their stories.
Topics include:
- Great Fire of London - Recreate the events and meet the characters from this epic moment of London's history in 1666
- Florence Nightingale - Meet the Lady with the Lamp and understand her role during the Crimean War. Discover the contributions she made to the future of nursing
- Invaders and Settlers: The Romans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings - Find out what tempted invaders and settlers to the shores of Britain
- The Tudors - Find a way to remember Henrys 6 wives and explore the differences between the lives of the rich and the lives of the poor
- The Victorians - Imagine being a child in Victorian London and experience how things changed for children during this period (this workshop links to the literacy unit Street Child)
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Second World War - Experience what it was like for those children who were evacuated, leaving the city behind for life in the countryside
