During the winter of 2007 MACE worked closely with Susan Billington, a year 4 teacher at Inglehurst Junior School in Leicester, to produce a number of web resources for Key Stage 2 teachers and learners.  All the activities draw on elements of MACE's collections and should be seen as an introduction to the potential use of archive film in the classroom.   

The results of this work now appear, in full, on EM Source, an East Midlands resource for teachers and learners while the MACE site hosts the clips from the titles as well as outline descriptions of the suggested activites.  The activities are deliberately non-prescriptive, acting as an introduction to the use of moving image in teaching at KS2 and, while there is a definite focus on history and citizenship, the aim was to encourage cross curricular use.  

The activities are based on three titles from MACE's collections: We Chose Skegness (1961); Leicester Poor Boys' and Girls' Summer Camp at Mablethorpe (ca 1920) and [Kingsbury: Buoyant Upholstery Fire] (1940).  

To explore the activities further click on the relevant images below or visit EM Source. 

We Chose Skegness (1961)
What can film tell us about holidays in the past?

Leicester Poor Boys and Girls Summer Camp at Mablethorpe 
(ca 1920)
Did poor children go on holiday in the past?

[Kingsbury: Bouyant Upholstery Fire] (1940)
What was it like to fight a fire in WWII?