Usworth Colliery Primary School
Learning Challenge Curriculum 2014-2015
Year Group: 4
What would your life have been like 100 years ago?
Area from curriculum you are studying
History:
Significant
theme
in Man
BritishorHistory:
Children’s lives in the 20th century.
Who’s the
strongest?
Iron
Gladiator?
Literacy Link: Recount from the point of view of a child.
Non-chronological report about toys of the past.
WOW: All children start the day by being introduced to traditional board games such
as: ludo, snakes and ladders, etc.
Learning Challenge 1: How would you have coped without television and the iPad?
Creative Art /Expressive Link
Still life pictures of toy planes, trains, dolls.
Learning Challenge 2: What was different about daily life for rich and poor children 100
years ago?
Appreciation of a wide variety of music. Music – How music has
changed through the decades.
Learning Challenge 3: How was leisure and entertainment different for rich and poor
children 100 years ago?
Other Curriculum Links: Maths – collection and comparing of data
– time spent watching tv or playing on electronic games.
Learning Challenge 4: How did the war change the lives of children?
Learning Challenge 5: Children to create a book or documentary on life for children 100
years ago focusing on leisure and entertainment.
Fiction and Non-Fiction Links
Chimney child – Laurie Sheehan