Curious Historians - Moortown Primary School, Leeds

As part of the current history topic – The Great Fire of London – the children have been using historical sources to ask and answer questions about the past.

Questions are tools of curiosity

In Year One, the children are given plenty of opportunities to ask questions and these have stimulated some great conversations.

To help develop and nurture the children’s curiosity about the past, we have a dolls house in the classroom. The class can spend time looking inside the house and studying the various items. As well as raising questions, we have been using this resource as an opportunity for writing. Using some of the vocabulary taught in history lessons, the children have been writing about the objects in the house.

I think the bath looks old and it doesn’t have any taps.

Is this pram old fashioned?

I think the shower is modern.

The photograph looks like it is from a long time ago. There isn’t any colour.

I think the telephone is from the past. I’ve never seen one like that before. I wonder how it worked?

Did they have prams like this a long time ago?

The sofa looks modern.

Keep asking questions, Year One!