School sessions at Carmarthenshire Archives

Bespoke Locality Study

Your pupils set the questions. What do they want to find out about their locality? We meet on Teams for introductions and an overview of how the Archives can help with a research project looking at your locality. Then the pupils ask questions about their locality that they would like to find out about. They then visit us at the Archives (around 2 weeks later) and carry out the research.

Typical sessions include the following documents: census, maps, photographs, trade directories, newspaper articles, baptism, marriage, burial records.

Most importantly, all our documents are local. We can help tell the story of your local area.

• Progression level: 1-5 (can be adapted)
• Target age: Yrs 1-9 (can be adapted)
• Length of session: 1-2 hours
• Area of learning: Humanities
• What matters statements: 1-5
• Cross Curricular Skills: Literacy; Numeracy; Creative thinking and problem solving; Creativity and Innovation; Personal effectiveness
• Cost: Free
• Location: Archive Searchroom or via Teams

For more information, or to make a booking, please contact: archives@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

 

Victorians

The Victorian era is probably our strongest point. If you are studying the Victorians then please contact us. Whether you are interested in education, health, crime and punishment, industrialisation or the history of your area, we can almost certainly help you and your pupils to find out lots more about what was happening in your area during the Victorian era. All of our documents are local so we only focus on what was happening in our area!

Recent topics include farming; shops; schools and crime.

If you and your pupils have something different in mind please contact us and we will advise on what we can do.

• Progression level: 1-5 (can be adapted)
• Target age: Yrs 1-9 (can be adapted)
• Length of session: 1-2 hours
• Area of learning: Humanities
• What matters statements: 1-5
• Cross Curricular Skills: Literacy; Numeracy; Creative thinking and problem solving; Creativity and Innovation; Personal effectiveness
• Cost: Free
• Location: Archive Searchroom or via Teams

For more information or to make a booking please contact: archives@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

 

Second World War

Pupils will use school logbooks and admission registers, newspapers, billeting records and diaries to find out more about the evacuees who came to Carmarthenshire during the Second Word War.

• Progression level: 1-5 (can be adapted)
• Target age: Yrs 1-9 (can be adapted)
• Length of session: 1-2 hours
• Area of learning: Humanities
• What matters statements: 1-5
• Cross Curricular Skills: Literacy; Numeracy; Creative thinking and problem solving; Creativity and Innovation; Personal effectiveness
• Cost: Free
• Location: Archive Searchroom or via Teams

For more information or to make a booking please contact: archives@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

 

Tudors@work

Pupils use apprenticeship indentures to find out more about the working lives of young people in the Carmarthenshire area during the Tudor period. We discuss the concept of apprentice and master; types of job during Tudor times and the pros and cons of learning a trade. Pupils also have the opportunity to make their own apprenticeship indentures. 

• Progression level: 1-5 (can be adapted)
• Target age: Yrs 1-9 (can be adapted)
• Length of session: 1-2 hours
• Area of learning: Humanities
• What matters statements: 1-5
• Cross Curricular Skills: Literacy; Numeracy; Creative thinking and problem solving; Creativity and Innovation; Personal effectiveness
• Cost: Free
• Location: Archive Searchroom or via Teams

For more information or to make a booking please contact: archives@carmarthenshire.gov.uk