Primary resources
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The primary education pack provides a range of historical sources, lesson ideas and activities linked to Key Stages 1 and 2 through Literacy, History and Citizenship.
The materials have been developed from documents and photographs contained within The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) and The City of Westminster Archives Centre (COWAC), unless otherwise stated.
The pack includes:
- Teachers' notes and information sheets
- Activity sheets for pupils
- Timeline
- Colour facsimile archive documents and photographs to support activities
A
hard copy printed pack is FREE to teachers: email your name and school address to info@postalheritage.org.uk
or call 020 7239 2570.
The pack is also available to download as a PDF.
Please let us know what you think of the pack using our evaluation form (Word file, 200KB)
Free resources
- Primary Gallery
- Colour images to support teaching of the pack
- Primary soldiers’ stories
- Soldiers’ stories from The Royal Mail Archive. These can be used in addition to the primary education pack. This section also includes further information on the soldiers.
- Primary History
- Online versions of the information sheets from the primary education pack. There are links to the glossary and timeline, so pupils can do their own research
- This section is useful for setting pupils online research tasks within a limited online environment. No links from this section go outside the BPMA website
- Worksheet bank
- A selection of PDF worksheets that have not been included in the printed primary pack
