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KS1 - Trains, Trams and Trades (local history)
In this fun and practical session, pupils will learn about the old branch line that ran through Colyton to Seaton and the importance of the railway to the local area. They will find out about Gilbert Dowd, a Victorian stationmaster at Colyton Station in the 1890’s, and will use photographs and artefacts to investigate how life has changed in the area since Victorian times. Finally they will learn about Claude Lane, whose passion for electric transport led to him bringing his entire Tramway from Eastbourne to Seaton in the late 1960’s.
Curriculum links:
History:
- Changes within living memory – aspects of change within national life (travel/transport)
- Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
This session will support pupils to:
- Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time
- Understand where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework
- Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods
- Ask and answer questions
- Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past
2.5 hours including return tram journey from Seaton to Colyton
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KS1 Evacuee Experience
Arriving at Seaton Station in 1940’s costume and with your identity cards and gas mask boxes, you will be met by the billeting officer who will then see you onto the tram and accompany you to Colyton. Remember to watch your behaviour – she won’t stand for any nonsense!
Following this fun and thought-provoking role-play activity, you will be taken to the Garden Room at Colyton Station to find out about the children who were evacuated to Colyton from London at the start of World War II. Using eye-witness accounts, local authority reports and photographs, you will piece together their stories to understand what life was like as an evacuee.
Whole day workshops will include a visit to Colyton Heritage Centre, a 15-minute walk from Colyton Station.
2.5 hour or whole-day sessions available, including return tram journey from Seaton to Colyton
Curriculum links: History
KS1: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
This session will support pupils to:
- understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
- understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
- gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales
This session is also offered at Key Stage 2
KS1 Let’s Explore the Local Area
An opportunity to explore the natural and human features of Seaton, investigating how the area has changed over time and looking at the impact of human geographical features such as the new housing development, the Tesco superstore and the coming of the Tramway to Seaton. Pupils will consider what life would have been like in Seaton when the holiday camp was in its heyday, and will then work together to imagine a Seaton of the future – what could be done to make it even better for residents and visitors?
3 hours including return tram journey from Seaton to and Colyton, stopping at Riverside Halt
Curriculum links: Geography
- KS1: understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom; use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather, and key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop
This session will support pupils to:
- understand the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments
- develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
Curriculum links: History
- KS1: changes within living memory - aspects of change in national life; significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
This session will support pupils to:
- Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history
- Note connections, contrasts and trends over time
- Address and devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference and significance
- understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time
This session is also offered at Key Stage 2
KS1 Materials Matter!
In this workshop pupils will investigate the materials used to construct our trams and the Tramway’s infrastructure. They will consider the properties of the different materials used, and understand why certain materials are more suitable than others, then use this knowledge to decide on a suitable material for a brand new ‘tram of the future’. This session will generate lots of discussion and will encourage children to use and contextualise scientific vocabulary relating to materials and their properties.
2.5 hours including return tram journey from Seaton to Colyton
Curriculum links: Science
Everyday Materials; Uses of Everyday Materials
This session will support pupils to:
- develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
- use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
- identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
- describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
KS1 Wild Art Workshops
Departing from Seaton Station, the tram will stop at Seaton Wetlands Halt where pupils will have time to observe this beautiful, wild environment, focusing on colours and textures and looking for signs of wildlife. After making notes and sketches, they will then continue on to Colyton where they will create their own artwork inspired by the flora and fauna of the Wetlands.
3.5 hours including return tram journey from Seaton to Seaton Wetlands Halt and Colyton.
Curriculum links: Art
KS1: use a range of materials creatively to design and make products; develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
This session is also offered at Key Stage 2
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KS1 Tramway Tales
Join Tramway Ted for a tram ride to Colyton and enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and activities in the Garden Room. Sessions can be themed to link with specific topics. A sensory version of Tramway Tales is also available for pupils with SEND.
KS1 Curriculum links: English
Listen to and discuss a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently; link what they read or hear to their own experiences; become familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics; recognise and join in with predictable phrases; learn to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart
This session will support pupils to:
- Develop a lifelong love of reading
- Read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world they live in, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum
- Increase their vocabulary by encountering words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech
- Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding
2.5 hours including return tram journey from Seaton to Colyton
This session is also offered at EYFS
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