Resources and links to online information

 
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St Peters School in the 1920s 

Resources and links to online information

Multimedia: 

  • KS2/3 versions of World Heritage and Blaenavon films
  • Audio narratives based on 10 monologues at WHC

Trails:

  • Coity Tip Trail (Big Pit) - Resources to support a school visit to Coity Tip. This former colliery spoil heap is now a mini nature reserve and ideal for family walks and out of classroom learning – especially science and geography.

Teachers’ Resources:

  • Activities to support a visit to the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (produced by Fourteen Locks Canal Centre and Forgotten Landscapes Project) at http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/ks2-canal-history-and-wildlife 
  • Pickets, Police and Politics (Big Pit) - A learning resource for secondary schools about the 1984-5 Miner’s Strike. This includes oral testimony and images at www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/7/5/3/strike-en.pdf
  • Children of the Revolution (Big Pit) - Children of the Revolution is our interactive learning resource created in partnership with Newport LEA to increase understanding of children’s living and working conditions in the nineteenth century. It includes spreadsheet activities, mapping exercises, virtual tours and downloadable sheets at www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/2158 
  • Blaenavon by David Maddox, Martin Williams, Angharad Williams - NGfL Cymru - This unit contains three interactive history resources. The activities are intended to contribute to the development of historical and key skills. As part of the locality investigation there is an opportunity for pupils to study various topics using a range of sources including plans, photographs, aerial photographs, reconstruction drawings, an animation, census returns, maps and Royal Commission reports. The first resource, location, uses maps and plans to learn about Blaenavon, and investigate how the town has changed since the early 19th century. The world of work resource uses a range of sources to find out about a family who lived and worked at the Blaenavon ironworks. The last resource, houses and homes, studies the living conditions of the ironworkers and gives pupils an opportunity to develop thinking skills, including number skills. The activities develop an understanding of how the past is interpreted by historians and encourages pupils to reflect on what has been learnt. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/blaenavon 
  • Coal Stories: Working & Living in a coal & iron communities by Gill Foley, Martin Williams, David Maddox. A look at people’s working and home lives in coal communities in 19th and early 20th Wales. Attention has been given to the lives of children working in the 1840s and the life of a young boy miner in the early 20th century. The work links with the 4 programmes that BBC Wales produced for schools ‘Coal Stories’ produced in conjunction with the ‘Coal House’ series. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/coal-stories-c19

Welsh Language:

  • Geiriau Glo – Welsh language adult learning resource from Big Pit.
 
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