This is the second of three activities for Key Stage 2 teachers and learners based around titles from MACE's collections. The suggested activities were conceived by Susan Billington, a year 4 teacher at Inglehurst Junior School.
From this page you will be able to view extracts from LEICESTER POOR BOYS' AND GIRLS' SUMMER CAMP AT MABLETHORPE (ca 1920) in your Windows Media Player. Please double click on the images to launch the player.
Suggested activity 1 - Questioning-jpe.jpg)
Where are the children arriving? Why are they all together?
When was this film made? How can you tell?
How do you think the children are feeling?
Where are they going?
Suggested activity 2 - Lights! Camera! Action!
Design an 'old fashioned' poster.
Write and present a commentary for the film clip.
Create a storyboard for your last holiday.
Suggested activity 3 - Boys and girls
What are the differences between the boys' and the girls' homes?
What activities are the boys and girls doing?
Are there still differences in the activities that boys and girls are expected to do today?