You Are here

A year-long linking project between two schools, beginning with the children focusing on their own identity and sharing this information with each other through emails.

Pupils from Lees Primary School and Margaret McMillan Primary School linked together to explore identity using modern technology.

The two primary schools researched their own family history and settlement, finding out about how they came to be in Bradford, what journeys they had taken and why their families decided to settle here.

They spent a day together at Bradford Industrial Museum using the “You Are Here” exhibition to research the patterns of history and settlement across the Bradford district from 1800 to 2007.

Activities

For the first activity they worked together to develop a timeline of Bradford, looking carefully at who came to Bradford, when and why they came and which special objects they brought to the culture of modern Bradford. They then worked with a drama artist to produce a timeline of Bradford using freeze frame and movement.

For the second activity the children found out about the different games children in Bradford played in the past. They then had an opportunity to play some of these games, e.g. Victorian street games like Diablo, Marbles, Skittles and Hopscotch.

Successes

Through working on the activities, the children began to understand the bigger picture of how modern culture in Bradford has evolved over many years of settlement. They soon recognised that on some level everyone comes from somewhere and were able to relate this to their own and family members experience. This enabled them to create positive links and gain a new level of understanding of the children they were linking with.