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Bow Street Runner Curriculum Relevance

 

Activity 1:

The Fielding Brothers are coming

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History curriculum link:  understand causes and consequences; make historical enquiry and communicate with past; understand significance in history; understand key features and characteristics of period, societies and situations; look at interpretations and representations of history; comprehend, analyse and evaluate in relation to historical context

Other Curriculum Links: Citizenship

Activity 2:

The Rise of the Machines

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History curriculum link:  develop chronological, cultural, ethnic and religious
understanding; analyse change and continuity; use evidence; communicate with the past; understand people, change and issues; use historical sources critically in their contexts; understand interpretations and representations of History

Other Curriculum Links: Citizenship

Activity 3: Running from the Bow Street Runner

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History curriculum link:  Develop chronological understanding; understand causes and consequences; make interpretations and historical enquiry; communicate with the past; recall, apply knowledge of events, people, change and issues; comprehend, analyse and evaluate in relation to historical context

Other Curriculum Links: Citizenship

Activity 4The City of Vice Board Game

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History curriculum link:  develop chronological understanding; make historical enquiry; use evidence; apply knowledge about events, people, change and issues; understand interpretations and representation of History

Activity 5: Then…and now

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History curriculum link:  understand cause and consequences; make historical enquiry and communicate with past; understand significance in history; understand key features and characteristics of period; look at interpretations and representations of history; apply knowledge about issues and societies; comprehend, analyse and evaluate in relation to the historical context
Citizenship: to engage with processes of democracy and justice; to explore issues of rights and responsibilities; to make connections between past and present

Other Curriculum links: PSHEE

Activity 6:Detective Fiction

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English curriculum link:  make fresh connections between ideas, experiences, texts and words; use imagination to convey themes and create settings, moods and characters; gain a sense of English Literary heritage and engage with important texts in it; use imagination to create effects to surprise and engage the audience; experiment with language, manipulating form, challenging conventions and reinterpreting ideas

Other Curriculum links: History; Citizenship

Gifted and Talented Activity :The Enlightenment Jigsaw Activity

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History curriculum link:  develop chronological understanding; develop  cultural, ethnic and religious understanding; understand significance; make interpretations, historical enquiry and communicate with past; understand significance in history; use evidence; apply knowledge of  key features and characteristics of period; comprehend, analyse  and evaluate in relation to the historical context

Other Curriculum Links: Citizenship

SEN Activity:Bill Redmond, ‘The Black Terror’

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History curriculum link:  develop chronological understanding; develop cultural understanding; understand cause and consequence; use evidence; communicate with the past

Other Curriculum Links: Citizenship

Level:
11 – 16yrs: KS3; KS4; S 1-6
Curriculum Relevance:
History; Citizenship; English
Benefits:
allows players to experience the realities of life in Georgian London