Field of Archives

How Paganel Primary School is playing its part to remember the First World War, 100 years on.

In November, earlier in the year, Paganel Primary School’s Year 5 classes visited Lodge Hill Cemetery as part of a project with the Big Ideas Company to commemorate those who died in the First World War and are buried at Lodge Hill.

We researched a number of soldiers buried at Lodge Hill, and the pupils took part in a number of activities to locate and learn more about these individuals, to help to connect them with the events of 100 years ago.

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Learning about our suffrage heritage

It’s important to know where your from.  It’s also important that where you’re from recognises and values you.

We started this week with a political map of Birmingham, showing boundaries about to change, discussed why they were changing, discussed the biggest change in Birmingham Political history in 1911, when the Greater Birmingham Act made us ‘the second city’, and the biggest national political change on February 6th 1918, when the Representation of the People Act was signed on 6th February 1918, giving the right to vote to most men and, for the first time, some women.

In the playground

 

Following the interviews, we decided to go out into the playground and photo some of the things discussed.  Here are some of the comments:

‘We’ve had a lot of fun here’

‘This is where the foxes live – we’re not allowed to go too close.’

‘We use the tables for hiding under – they have games on top.’

‘When we were little we got to go the little playground.  We’ve not been here for years!’

‘In year 2 we did PE here [the small playground]’

‘I remember growing vegetables and eating them. Make soup and parents had to try it.’

‘In nursery we used to play on the bikes.  Brings back memories of crashing into the wall and hurting myself, so many times.’

Sport and games at Paganel

With Birmingham securing the bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022, the Archive After School Club decided to look back on another major national sporting event; the 2012 London Olympics.  This post is written by Tom Jordan.

Visiting Lodge Hill Cemetery

On 10th November our Year 5 visit to Lodge Hill Cemetery using in soldiers footsteps to find out about World War One in Birmingham. Afterwards we asked a teacher and some of the children about the visit.  Video and sound clip are brief edited responses:

A New Start

This blog post is about the start of Archive Club for this school year, what has changed and what there is to look forward to. It was written by Tom Jordan.

Teaching – that’s the life for me!

Mrs Jackson explains about her last job, teaching on a boat.  There were different challenges to teaching – often there was a wider age range – and returning back to teaching in the UK after a period of time a lot of things had changed, or was new, like phonics.