What were seaside holidays like in the past?

Order objects correctly in chronological sequence; recognise some similarities and differences between holidays now and in the past; collect information about the past by asking questions of people who were alive before the children were born, and from objects and pictures; recognise that there are several ways they can find out about the past; write sentences about seaside holidays in the past, using words related to the passing of time.

Teaching Activities

Combine with Geography Unit - Going to the seaside
In Beside the seaside (QCA website), a visit to the seaside and the use of common source materials enabled children to understand some of the connections between history (unit 3) and geography (unit 4).

Smartboard Resource - (Greenwich ICT)

Smartboard Resource - (Smart Education)

Smartboard Resource - (TES Resource Bank)

Photographs
Children look at photographs of the seaside from the past and present.
Can they spot similarities and differences e.g. metal buckets/plastic buckets.

Children use photographic evidence to identify features of summer holidays.
Can they annotate pictures of seaside holidays using time-appropriate vocabulary?

Old Photographs of the seaside town of Dover

Seaside Holidays - Teaching Resources (TRE)

www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/happy/source4.htm

The beach at Hastings 1900s

Photographs

Set of photographs relating to seaside holidays and the beach, from the Cromer Museum collection.

Find out about holidays in the past from photos
The Oxfordshire ICT Team have created a lesson plan with video resources.
www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/best_practice/seaside/index_main.html

Seaside postcards from old photographs
www.sunnyfield.co.uk/seaside_pcs.htm

Asking questions from old photographs
A web page where children can type in their questions.

Compare holidays today with holidays in the past

What was it like when my parents were on holiday?

Questions about bathing huts

Photographs of bathing huts and more

Find out about holidays in the past from interviewing visiting adults - ICT Link
Video extracts of different people describing their seaside holidays in the past.
The Oxfordshire ICT Team have created a lesson plan with video resources.
www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/history.html
Click on 'Using video for research'

What can a poster advertising holidays by the sea tell us about the past?
Clothes and bathing huts .
www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/happy/source3.htm

www.seasidehistory.co.uk/

Postcards - ICT Link
Children could use a painting program to create a seaside scene

Coastal Explorer (Sammy the Seagull Big Book) - ICT Link
A cross curicular project. The theme of the seaside is set mainly in a geographical context but uses a historical perspective to help children understand how seaside places have evolved over time.(Unit 3 history)

Showbox Seaside
Instructions and print outs for making a seaside scene.

The Light House for Education site has resources for this unit.
The site has a presentation using flash as well as clicker grid resources

Snaith Primary - ICT Link
http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/
Follow 'Beside the Sea' link

Seasides Long Ago

Punch and Judy
http://www.punchandjudy.com/

The Victorian Seaside - BBC

Seaside stories: Folkestone

Seaside Holidays then and now
The North Norfolk seaside town of Cromer is the focus. The pages provide detail about seaside holidays around the beginning of the 20th century and have been written to draw comparisons between seaside holidays then and now.

Ideas for Classroom display - Town Field Primary School