“Daisies on the Cross”
New FREE Recovery Curriculum Resource for Upper KS2 and Year 7.
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New FREE Recovery Curriculum Resource for Upper KS2 and Year 7.
Click on links at the bottom of the page
Prior to lockdown Gertie Whitfield from Whitworks Adventures in Theatre (WAT) was delivering a Drama workshop in primary and secondary schools across the region. The project was commissioned by the University of Nottingham as part of their World War One Centre for Hidden Histories work.
“Daisies on the Cross”, a play by Paul Whitfield, tells the true story of three young women from Shirebrook in Derbyshire who lost their lives working in a top-secret munitions factory during World War One. Their story had been forgotten and their graves left unmarked, unlike the young men who had lost their lives fighting in World War One.
“Daisies on the Cross”, a play by Paul Whitfield, tells the true story of three young women from Shirebrook in Derbyshire who lost their lives working in a top-secret munitions factory during World War One. Their story had been forgotten and their graves left unmarked, unlike the young men who had lost their lives fighting in World War One.
The play explores remembrance, trauma and resilience in a positive way. It examines how its characters come to terms with surviving loss. The resource also introduces the experience of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 /19. The resource is uniquely placed to enable children and young people to explore their recent experiences safely through the distance of history.
Written for the Covid 19 classroom, the activities also help students to relearn school routines and disciplines. As guidance changes and every school context is different, adaptation may be appropriate.
Students will have opportunities to debate, write, have fun and engage with an original play.
The resource explores the history of gender inequalities and the practical implications of this are demonstrated in the play.
WAT has published the primary school resource as a cross curricular piece of work for English, Relationships, Sex and Health Education and History.
Written for the Covid 19 classroom, the activities also help students to relearn school routines and disciplines. As guidance changes and every school context is different, adaptation may be appropriate.
Students will have opportunities to debate, write, have fun and engage with an original play.
The resource explores the history of gender inequalities and the practical implications of this are demonstrated in the play.
WAT has published the primary school resource as a cross curricular piece of work for English, Relationships, Sex and Health Education and History.
Click this link to download the Primary Upper KS2 English /RSHE/History resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/primary-english-history-rshe-recovery-curriculum-resource-12387966
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/primary-english-history-rshe-recovery-curriculum-resource-12387966
WAT has published the secondary school resource for the subjects of Drama or Relationships, Sex and Health Education.
Click this link to download the Secondary Year7 RSHE/Drama resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/secondary-rshe-drama-recovery-curriculum-resource-12388050
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/secondary-rshe-drama-recovery-curriculum-resource-12388050
