Home life in the First World War
Image: © Gazette series: Murray Dowding: Yate and District Heritage Centre.
Key Stage 1/2
Children will learn what life was like at home for the children of the First World War through two contemporary photographs.
National Curriculum: History/English
Home Life in the First World War (PDF)
Teacher’s information.
This Learning Resource Contains:
- The two photographs; the girls knitting and the Wolf Cubs.
- Teachers Notes: Information about home life, including ideas of books and poems of
the time. - Activity – A quiz
- Other Free First World War Project Learning Resources
- Feedback form
Other Free Learning Resources available are:
The Great War – Life in the Trenches – Alf Flux and his Kit Bag (Plus a Loans Box)*
School Children in the Great War – Messages and Mufflers
The Girls who made Grenades – The Warmley Grenadiers
Empire Foods – The War at Sea – (Loans Box)*
The Amy Hill Autograph Book – Cleve Hill Hospital
The Amy Hill Autograph Book – Wounded on the Somme
The Hill and the Flux Family
The Armistice Day Investigation Quiz
- Loans boxes can be booked through your local South Gloucestershire Museums:
Frenchay Village Museum: e.mail: frenchaymuseum@Hotmail.com
Yate and District Heritage Centre: e.mail: info@yateheritage.co.uk
Thornbury and District Museum: e.mail: enquiries@thornburymuseum.org.uk
Kingswood Heritage Museum: e.mail: Kingswoodmusuem@gmail.com
Avon Valley Railway Trust: www.avonvalleyrailway.org – contact form
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