Primary Schools Teacher Resources

Telling the Stories of 14 Henrietta Street

Your class will develop skills of empathy, synthesis and communication to imagine the thoughts and feelings of people who lived in 14 Henrietta Street over time. Using different mediums, they will retell and communicate these stories and put themselves in the shoes of people in the past.

Working as a historian:

• Synthesis and Communication 
• Empathy

Connects to the following strands in the history curriculum:

• 1st - 2nd class
  When my grandparents were young
  Stories
• 3rd - 4th class
  Homes
  Stories
  Life in the 18th century
  Life in the 19th century
  Continuity and change over time: Clothes; Homes and houses
• 5th - 6th class
  Homes
  Stories from the lives of people in the past
  Life in the 18th century
  Life in the 19th century
  Changing roles of women in 19th and 20th centuries
  
  

Subject integration:

• Music: Listening and responding; Performing
• Visual arts: Many stories may inspire artistic work
• Drama: Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
• Geography: Human environments—People living and working in the local area

Tasks 1 - 3: