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• 6.1: Early Years
• 6.2: Literacy
• 6.3: Mathematics
• 6.4: Science
• 6.5: History
  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • 6.5.2: Famous Men, Women and Children (age 5-7)
  • 6.5.3: Find Out About The Seaside (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.5: Ancient Greece (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.6: Life in Tudor Times (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.7: Romans in Britain (age 7-11)
  • 6.5.8: Victorian Britain (age 7-11)
• 6.6: Geography
• 6.7: Religious Education
• 6.8: PSHE
• 6.9: Modern Foreign Language

History

Famous Men, Women and Children (age 5-7)

Children travel back in time with Magic Grandad to find out about the lives and contributions of famous people in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

Key features:

• Encourages children to develop a sense of chronology
• The CD-ROM includes the best video, audio, picture and text resources for teaching, to engage and interest your pupils.
• Interactive activities ensure children are active learners.
• There are plenty of ideas for child-centred follow-on activities to do away from the whiteboard.
• Cross-curricular links throughout, with writing activities for every unit which give children a context for literacy work.

Contents:

Unit 1: Famous people today and in the past.

• What do we mean by a 'famous' person today?
• Famous people in the past
• How long ago did these famous people live?

 

Unit 2: Queen Elizabeth I

• Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
• Why was Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London?
• What was life like for Elizabeth in the Tower?
• What happened to Elizabeth next?
• What did Queen Elizabeth I look like?
• Did Elizabeth really look like this?
• Wanted - New portraits of the Queen!
• Writing focus: A prisoner in the Tower

 

Unit 3: Mary Seacole

• Who was Mary Seacole?
• How else did Mary help the British soldiers?
• Mary's early life
• Mary's journey
• What happened to Mary Seacole after the War?
• Mary Seacole's story
• Is this Mary Seacole?
• Writing focus: The story of Mary Seacole

 

Unit 4: Louis Braille

• Why do we remember Lois Braille?
• How did Louis become blind?
• How did blind children learn to read before Louis invented Braille?
• How did Louis' invention help blind children write?
• How do we know about Louis Braille?
• The Braille alphabet
• How do we help people with sight problems today?
• Writing focus: How to write in Braille.

 

Unit 5: Beatrix Potter

• Who was Beatrix Potter?
• Young Beatrix Potter
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Beatrix's later life and legacy
• What did Beatrix Potter look like?
• The Tailor of Gloucester
• Reading The Tailor of Gloucester
• Comparing Beatrix Potter's childhood and your own.

 

Unit 6: Walter Tull

• What did Walter Tull achieve?
• Did Walter have a happy childhood?
• Growing up then and now
• A famous footballer
• Football then and now
• Going to war
• How do we remember soldiers who died in the First World War?
• Writing focus: A letter to Cissie.

 

Unit 7: Nelson Mandela

• What's so special about Nelson Mandela?
• Childhood in South Africa
• Why did Nelson want a better life for South Africans?
• Arrest and imprisonment
• What was Nelson's prison cell like?
• What was every day in prison like for Nelson?
• Free at last!
• Writing focus: Why do we remember Nelson Mandela?

 

Unit 8: Conclusion

• Who is the most important?
• Stars: A poem by Sandra Horn.

 

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