Summary
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Credits
These learning activities are designed to support students' historical enquiry and interpretation skills, and provide a focus for local history studies.
Primarily created for use by Key Stage 3 & 4 students, the activities are flexible and can easily be adapted for use at Key Stage 2 within the Citizenship and History curricula.
As well as links to the National Curriculum History programme of study, the package includes activities to develop language across the curriculum.
Background
'Local Heroes' was developed as a 'spin off' from the teacher-led 'Survival' team-working activities provided by Newark Air Museum for KS2 pupils.
Winthorpe Airfield, now the home of Newark Air Museum, was once an RAF base that hosted the 300 and 301 Squadrons, made up of mainly Polish aircrew who had escaped from occupied Europe.
While returning from a bombing raid on Bremen, a Wellington bomber from Winthorpe crash landed at Roe Wood Farm, Winkburn, home to the Broadberry Family. The learning activities provided here allow students to find out about the dramatic crash and rescue.
Winthorpe Airfield, now the home of Newark Air Museum, was once an RAF base that hosted the 300 and 301 Squadrons, made up of mainly Polish aircrew who had escaped from occupied Europe.
While returning from a bombing raid on Bremen, a Wellington bomber from Winthorpe crash landed at Roe Wood Farm, Winkburn, home to the Broadberry Family. The learning activities provided here allow students to find out about the dramatic crash and rescue.