Simple now and then sentence writing activity for children to compare entertainment 100 years ago and now at the seaside. Second page has images for ideas, some may provoke discussion. Children can either choose two favourite / images to cut and stick on page 1 or copy them into the image boxes.

Linked to a topic on the sinking of the Titanic, children are asked to compare and contrast clothes from 1912 and now. Lots of photos of different social groups and activities that require specific clothing to look at. Links well with an activity making paper clothes for paper dolls (looking at how many layers people used to wear).

Children develop collage skills as well as understanding of Tudor houses and materials used to build them as part of the Great Fire of London Topic. Children then look at paintings of the Great fire of london, thinking about secondary sources, and then paint atmospheric fiery pictures to form the background of a display. Very effective when all put together.

worksheet for children to note exciting, interesting descriptive words, thinking about all their senses, to say what life in the trenches was like, working towards writing an imagined letter home from the trenches.