October 15, 2018

100 Days Centenary Countdown: Young Person’s Resources

Although Home Front Legacy is now drawing to a close, our extensive set of Young Person’s resources will continue to be available via the Young Archaeologists’ Club website.

These resources are designed to inspire the next generation of archaeologists and encourage participation in the recording of First World War era Home Front sites. These resources can be used to provide a series of informative workshops during the run up to the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day.

Our resources include-

Illustrated Home Front Panoramas:

These panoramas by highly acclaimed cartoonist Dave Chisholm depict aspects of Home Front life on land, in the air and at sea. The buildings, military activity and people going about their day-to-day business are based on real places and events that formed part of the Home Front story.

Clue Cards, Historic photo cards, Character cards and Story cards:

These cards enable your group to research and investigate the First World War Home Front. They can be used with our illustrated Home Front panoramas to:

• discover the stories of people on the Home Front;
• investigate the vast array of sites that can be found;
• and learn about the many events that occurred during this period.

A suite of twelve Session Plans:

These session plans, developed for primary teachers and group leaders, are designed to help you on your archaeological journey. The activities are designed to support the National Curriculums in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at Key Stage 2, and are suitable for pupils in Scotland following the broad general education phase of the Curriculum of Excellence. They are relevant for the KS2 ‘Local History Study’ in England and Wales, ‘The World Around Us’ at KS2 in Northern Ireland, and support experiences and outcomes in Social Studies at Levels 2-4 in the broad general education of the Curriculum for Excellence. The activities are also tailored for youth groups such as Young Archaeologists’ Clubs, Scouts and Guides.

Home Front Legacy Training Videos:

The Home Front Legacy team have joined forces with the Sheffield Young Archaeology Club and Archaeosoup, to commission and produce six films to showcase young people getting involved in practical archaeology, recording the Home Front.

These engaging films produced by young people, for young people set out to share the basics of site recording for the Home Front Legacy project.

Young Person’s Site Recording Guide:

Our eight part Site Recording Guide offers practical hints and tips for site recording. This guide can be used as a handout to support your classroom or field based sessions.

YAC groups get involved

The Sheffield branch of the Young Archaeologists’ Club helped Home Front Legacy develop our resources and training videos. The group helped to record sites associated with the Home Front in Sheffield; including the site of the Sheffield Pal’s training camp, an emergency landing ground used by ‘A’ Flight, No 33 Squadron (Home Defence), Royal Flying Corps, and the Somme Barracks drill hall.

Bexley YAC have been very busy recording Orchard Military Hospital, Dartford War Hospital and Joyce Green Airfield. The group conducted detailed surveys of these sites, recording surviving archaeological remains. They did a great job of investigating the sites and created detailed reports to outline their findings. Their records and reports will be available in full once our data is archived with the Archaeology Data Service. A copy of their report for the Dartford War Hospital is available HERE.

Leicestershire YAC became Home Front detectives by investigating their local wartime sites. The group learned about the range of Home Front sites that can be re-discovered and took time to identify a First World War era hospital with a field visit. You can find out more about Leicestershire YAC’s investigation HERE.

Over to You!

Our young person’s resources can be found on the Young Archaeologists’ Club website. These resources will continue to be available after Home Front Legacy comes to an end in December 1918.

We would like to hear from you if you intend to use our resources for centenary events for young people.