Last updated July 2010
Educational resources
As part of the Shaping the Future project NBHA has developed educational resource material linked to the national curriculum enabling the teaching of Black British History in the classroom.
Five titles have been produced that can be used by teachers in primary and secondary schools as they include Black British History in children’s learning. The packs are a gateway of resources, allowing teachers to develop their own activities in relation to the national curriculum at a range of levels. The activities in each pack use a selection of original document sources and photographs and can be used to develop and strengthen historical enquiry skills.
All packs are developed in consultation with a group of local teachers who act as a steering group and provide expertise for the project.
Some packs are FREE and available to download from this website. Other packs are available to purchase.
Curriculum Resource Packs:
Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity
Three packs have been developed. Key Stage 1 focuses on the history curriculum, with links to other curricular areas. The pack also contains an illustrated storybook. Key Stage 2/3 is cross curricular with history, citizenship and PSHE as its main focus. Key Stage 3 pack is a resource that links with the new history curriculum being introduced in 2008.Each pack contains: - a scheme of work booklet, a teacher’s resource booklet and a CD ROM.
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From Slavery to Emancipation is directed at Key Stage 3 and ties in directly with the 2007 bicentennial anniversary of the Parliamentary Abolition Act. This pack is FREE and available to download.
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Representations of Empire has links specifically into the Victorian area of the national curriculum and also direct links to collections and interpretation at Northampton Museum. Object handling boxes that accompany this pack are available for loan from Northampton Museum
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Black History – Living Memories is centred on the oral history collections of NBHA that are deposited at Northamptonshire Record Office. These encompass post WWII Black British History, focusing on topics such as arriving and settling, housing and employment, social life, racism and anti-racism. This pack has been developed for the Key Stage 2 and 3 curriculum.
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Northamptonshire in a Global Context This teaching resource explores three different topics covered within the book Sharing the Past. These mini-teaching packs are intended to provide materials for one or two lessons either as a lead into or as part of a wider general topic. The packs relate to different periods in the past in order to promote the integration of a black dimension in both the recent and distant past as part of our multicultural society and wider world.
This Pack is FREE to download.
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