These free resources are all designed to support your learning topics at school or at home. They tie in with the National Curriculum and can be used to support a school trip to Portland Basin Museum.

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Common Strands: Tameside's Cotton Industry

Explore how the transatlantic slave trade shaped Tameside’s cotton industry, and learn about legacies, with this Key Stage 3 history toolkit from Portland Basin Museum. Tameside teachers and pupils have helped shape how the resource can support teaching and learning around the transatlantic slave trade, and decolonising the curriculum.

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Complement your planners with relevant local history information and source materials from Portland Basin Museum and Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre. The education toolkit shares historical context, classroom activities, discussion questions and source material. There are four sections, and four films, designed for flexible use.

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Full playlist of videos for this toolkit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQOtbft1rbPY

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First World War

Support your learning about the First World War with our short film following Manchester Regiment solider 'Tommy Atkins'. Follow Tommy as he talks about signing up for war, life in the trenches and the hardships he faces. This film has been created for us by 2 Boards and Passion theatre company and funded by Army Museums Ogilby Trust. It provides the ideal introduction to the topic for schools and pupils. The film is just over 11 minutes long.

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Toys

Inspired by our museum and archive collections, we have created lots of resources around the topic of Toys, ideal for Key Stage 1. Click here for the resources. These would perfectly support a visit to Portland Basin Museum for our Toys Through Time workshop. This short film is a perfect introduction to the topic for your class. It is just over 6 minutes long.

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Victorian Children at Work

If you are studying Victorians then take a look at these activity ideas, lesson plans and film inspired by our museum and archive collections. Discover what life was like for children living in Victorian England and some of the gruesome jobs they had to undertake. These resources are perfect for Key Stage 1 or 2 and would support a visit to Portland Basin Museum for our Put to Work workshop. Click here for the resources.

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Conflict and Consequence

We created a series of films, scripts, accompanying booklets and lesson plans to support a study of the First World War for Key Stage 2 and beyond. Inspired by the Manchester Regiment collection, these resources can act as a stimulus to recreate dramatic scenes and to prompt creative writing.  
Click here for the Conflict and Consequence resources

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