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2011 Learning Programme
| KS2: History: Britain since 1930: A study of the impact of the Second World War or social and technological changes that have taken place since 1930, on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society. |
World War II Home Front Series: Evacuees
In World War II, bombing of the big cities meant that children were sent by rail to live with families in the countryside until it was safe for them to return home.
Bring your class to the railway to learn about why children were evacuated, where they were sent to and what life was like for them.
In this workshop, your class will watch some contemporary WWII newsreel footage, hear the story of an evacuee, dress up in WWII style clothes, do some role play, object handling of genuine gas masks, looking at replica documents, learning about what evacuees needed to take with them and thinking about what children would take with them today if they were evacuated.
Following your workshop, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Citizenship, Literacy, Geography
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Location: The Learning Centre, Pickering Station
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
World War II Home Front Series: Dig for Victory
In World War II food was rationed, so to help with the war effort, people grew their own fruit and vegetables using any available open spaces.
Bring your class to the railway for this hands-on workshop to learn about rationing, how people in World War II learnt to grow their own food and how this is relevant to today’s concerns of food provenance, healthy eating and sustainability.
Description: In this workshop your class will learn about rationing in World War II and how people had to learn to grow their own food. In WWII people had to make use of all sorts of spaces for growing fruit and vegetables and formal gardens and sports pitches were turned into allotments to feed the nation. Here on the railway we have made use of our picnic area to grow vegetables, and you can help us tend our crop and “Dig for Victory”! Your class will learn about growing vegetables, healthy eating and how people growing their own vegetables in WWII is similar to today’s interest “growing your own”, “food miles”. Additionally, everyone will take away their own vegetable seeds planted in paper pots to grow on back at school.
Following your workshop, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Science, Citizenship, Geography
Duration: 1hr 30mins – 2hrs
Location: The Learning Centre, Pickering Station
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
World War II Home Front Series: Make Do and Mend
In World War II, as well as rationing food, the government rationed fabric and other materials. People had to learn how to mend, reuse and recycle clothes and other household items.
Bring your class to the railway for this hands-on workshop to learn about rationing, how people in World War II learnt to “Make Do and Mend” and how this is relevant to today’s ideas about recycling and scarce resources.
In this workshop, your class will watch some contemporary WWII newsreel footage, learn about rationing and how this affected clothes as well as food, make something by recycling scraps of material, learn about the similarities between scarce resources in WWII and today’s concerns with finite resources and find out about the environmental and social costs of consumption.
Following your workshop, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Art & Design, Citizenship, Literacy, Geography
Duration: 1hr
Location: The Learning Centre, Pickering Station
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS2: History / Geography: The Rail Trail Walk
| KS2: History: Local history study
7. A study investigating how an aspect in the local area has changed over a long period of time, or how the locality was affected by a significant national or local event or development or by the work of a significant individual. KS2: Geography: Knowledge and understanding of places 3 (d) To explain why places are like they are (for example, in terms of weather conditions, local resources, historical development). (e) To identify how and why places change [for example, through the closure of shops or building of new houses, through conservation projects] and how they may change in the future [for example, through an increase in traffic or an influx of tourists] |
In 1865 the North Eastern Railway opened a new route for their railway between the stations of Goathland and Grosmont. The route of the old line has since become The Rail Trail, a pleasant walk through the tranquillity of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
Bring your class by steam train to Goathland to walk along the historic Rail Trail and learn about local history, how an area changes and how the landscape of the North Yorkshire Moors is constantly evolving.
The Historic Rail Trail follows the line of the original railway between the stations of Goathland and Grosmont, which was re-routed in 1865 to avoid the slope at Beck Hole, which was difficult for heavy trains to climb.
The Trail is 5 ½ km long, and from Goathland is downhill through the leafy surroundings of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
A half distance Rail Trail (Beck Hole-Grosmont or Goathland) is possible. For this option, after being dropped by your coach at Green End, you will walk across the moorland of a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SAM 35915) containing prehistoric rock art and cairns to join the Rail Trail at Beck Hole.
Appropriate footwear and waterproof coats should be worn.
Curriculum Links: History, Geography, Citizenship
Duration: up to 3hrs, plus train travel time
Location: Start at Goathland Station
Maximum Number for Trail: 50
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS1 & KS2 History: Railways and Representing the Past
Adaptable for both KS1 and KS2
| KS1: Historical interpretation
3. Pupils should be taught to identify different ways in which the past is represented. KS1: Historical enquiry 4. Pupils should be taught:
KS2: Historical interpretation 3. Pupils should be taught to recognise that the past is represented and interpreted in different ways, and to give reasons for this.
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The past can be represented in different ways for different reasons. Information about the history of railways comes to us from a variety of sources, including photographs, film, artefacts, documents and eye-witness accounts.
Bring your class to the railway for this workshop to learn about how the history of railways has been represented through media such as film, photography and painting.
In this workshop your class will look at the ways this history of railways has been represented, get a chance to handle historical artefacts, think about the reasons a form of representation was used, and how reliable it might be.
For KS2: your class will design a Visitor Centre for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, deciding what sorts of things we might want to tell our visitors about our history, and how we might do it (photographs, paintings, interactives, using people dressed up as people from the past, film, audio, artefacts etc.).
Following your workshop, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Literacy, Citizenship
Duration: 1hr
Location: The Learning Centre, Pickering Station
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS1 & KS2 History: Victorian Classroom and Railway Journey
Adaptable for both KS1 and KS2
| KS1: History
Historical enquiry
4. Pupils should be taught:
KS2: History
11. Victorian Britain A study of the impact of significant individuals, events and changes in work and transport on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society. |
Victorian times saw the start of many things we find familiar today, such as Britain’s railways, although for most people, everyday life was very different.
Bring your class to the railway for this hands-on workshop to learn about what it was like to go to school, to work and to play in Victorian times.
In collaboration with Beck Isle Museum, your class will enjoy a taste of life in Victorian times. They will take part in a typical Victorian school room lesson, get involved in wash-day, handle artefacts and play games in the Victorian parlour. They will also get to meet the blacksmith, and see how a printing press works.
Following your visit to the museum, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Literacy, Citizenship
Duration: 2-3hrs, plus train travel time
Location: Beck Isle Museum, Pickering (2 minutes from Pickering Station)
Maximum Number for Workshop: 60
Cost: Beck Isle Museum entrance fee £2.50 per child, accompanying teachers/helpers free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS1 & KS2 History: Victorians and the Railways
Adaptable for both KS1 and KS2
| KS1: History
Historical enquiry
4. Pupils should be taught:
KS2: History
11. Victorian Britain A study of the impact of significant individuals, events and changes in work and transport on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society. |
The coming of the railways saw huge changes in people’s lives. Suddenly the public and goods could travel further, clocks became standardised to “railway time” and people could go on holiday to the seaside.
Bring your class to the railway for this workshop to learn about how the coming of the railways affected almost every aspect of life for men, women and children in Victorian Britain.
For this workshop, your class will investigate the ways that the coming of the railways transformed the lives of people in Victorian times. They will look at the clothes Victorian railway passengers would have worn, including swimwear. There will be opportunities to dress up and make toys that Victorian children might have taken with them on their train journey.
Following your workshop, you and your class will take a steam train journey from Pickering up through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors to a station of your choice.
Curriculum Links: History, Literacy, Citizenship
Duration: 1hr
Location: The Learning Centre, Pickering Station
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS2 Geography: Goathland as a Contrasting Locality
| KS2: Geography
6. During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through the study of two localities and three themes: Localities
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Goathland is a very unusual village. It was a spa destination in the 19th century, a filming location for the ITV series Heartbeat and our railway station was used as Hogsmede for the Harry Potter films.
Bring your class to the railway for this activity to learn about how to carry out a fieldwork investigation into how places differ, how they change and why this matters.
After a steam train journey from a station of your choice, you and your class will arrive at Goathland Station. You will be divided into small teams to carry out a fieldwork investigation of the village, fill in a worksheet and annotate a map. You will think about how the railway and tourism has affected the village, and how it differs from another locality you have been studying.
Curriculum Links: Geography, History, Literacy, Citizenship
Duration: 3hrs
Location: Goathland
Maximum Number for Workshop: 50
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS1 & KS2: Art & Design: Journeys through Art
| KS1 Art & Design
1. Pupils should be taught to:
KS2 Art & Design 1. Pupils should be taught to:
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Our steam railway travels through the incredible scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, whose landscapes have always been a source of inspiration to artists.
Bring your class to the railway for this activity to learn about exploring ideas about movement, recording experiences of a journey and interpreting a journey through art.
In this workshop your class will have the chance to make a steam train journey and interpret what they experience through art. After a short introduction, you will be shown a selection of representations of movement in art. They will then produce a piece of work using watercolour pencils, depicting their impressions of their journey.
All materials are provided.
Curriculum Links: Art & Design, Literacy, History
Duration: 1-3hrs
Location: North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Maximum Number for Workshop: 35
Cost: Workshop free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
KS1 & KS2: Short Talk: Introduction to North Yorkshire Moors Railway
A short introduction to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, useful if you intend to have a self directed visit.
Duration: 15mins
Location: North Yorkshire Moors Railway Stations
Maximum Number: 40
Cost: Free of charge, group travel fares apply for rail travel
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