Resources

 
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St Peters School in the 1920s

Resources

The Learning Box has been devised by Torfaen County Borough Council in consultation with Cadw as a result of generous financial support provided by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Heads of the Valleys Programme. It consists of a range of educational resources suitable for all key stages that will provide structure for visits to key sites and support for preparatory and follow-up classroom studies.

The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape is an important place of study of the Industrial Revolution and is an ideal venue for schools studying changes in people’s daily lives in the 19th century and changes that happened in Wales, Britain and the wider world between 1760 and 1914. The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape is also an excellent case-study for students of urban decline and economic regeneration.

The Blaenavon World Heritage Centre was established to provide a focal reference point to the area’s rich industrial legacy, telling the story of the people who have shaped this landscape from the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution to the present day using a range of interpretative media including film, audio, graphics and interactive displays.

The Learning Box has been designed so that it can be updated to keep pace with curriculum developments and new educational resources. It is a ‘work in progress’ and we will be continually adding to the Learning Box to broaden its scope in terms of subject/curriculum and key stage coverage as more resources become available. It currently covers the curriculum subjects of history, geography and design & technology. Teachers are invited to contribute their own resources for inclusion within the Learning Box in order to share good practice and widen educational opportunities for students.

In the light of recent curriculum developments, we have devised 4 major themes around which our resources have been developed and schemes of work can be structured. For each theme, we have created topic webs to assist with planning and identifying curriculum links. Our 4 themes are: 

  • Blaenavon and the World Beyond
  • Landscape 
  • Cutting-edge Technology 
  • People
 
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