Cultural curriculum for Kirklees
An innovative new schools programme is being developed by Kirklees Museums and Galleries throughout 2024-25, offering high-quality and curriculum-focused opportunities for Early Years to Key Stage 5.
About our schools programme
Our school's programme will:
- Introduce all pupils in Kirklees to a broad, local-based, cultural curriculum, from Early Years to Post-16.
- Deliver enquiry-based learning to support the development of disciplinary knowledge, emphasising the value of learning by doing.
- Explore national narratives through a local lense: exploring the stories of people, places and things.
- Provide opportunities to raise literacy standards, through oracy and reading for pleasure.
- Promote British values, using heritage and culture to explore democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and tolerance.
Our curriculum
Kirklees Museums and Galleries can support you in exploring the following topics.
- The Gruffalo
- Handa's surprise
Enquiry questions
- What stories tell us about our world?
- Toys through time
- Habitats
- Great Fire of London
Enquiry questions
- What did Kirklees children play with in the past?
- What was Kirklees like at the time of the Great Fire of London?
- What lives in Oakwell Country Park?
- Geology, rocks and fossils
- Stone Age to Iron Age
- Anglo-Saxons
- Vikings
- Ancient Egyptians
- Tudors
- Suffragettes
- Industrial Revolution
- World War One
- World War Two
- Climate change
- Visual art
Enquiry questions
- What can local people from the past teach us about our natural world?
- How did local people help get women the vote?
- What are local art collections for?
- How has our local landscape changed since the beginning of time?
- What was the impact of Roman rule in Kirklees?
- How did the Vikings change Kirklees Council?
- Who were the first people to live in the Kirklees area?
- What was it like to live in Kirklees under the Anglo-Saxons?
- How did a local explorer help us to understand more about the ancient Egyptians?
- How did World War Two change the lives of local people?
- What was it like to live in Kirklees during the Tudor period?
- Medieval
- Early modern
- Industrial Revolution
- World War One
- Post-1948
- Geography fieldwork
- Visual art
Enquiry questions
- How has life changed in Huddersfield since 1948?
- What are the human and physical geography features of Kirklees?
- What impact did the Industrial Revolution have in Kirklees?
- What was it like to live in Kirklees during the medieval period?
- How did the Ramsden family change Huddersfield?
- How did World War One change the lives of local people?
- Medicine through time
- Oakwell Hall case study
- Geography field work
- Visual art
Enquiry questions
- What has been the significance of Oakwell Hall through time?
- How can fieldwork help us understand more about our environment?
- How has medical care changed for local people through time?
- Creative careers
- Visual art
Enquiry questions
- What was it like to work in the heritage industry?
