Children will:

Improve their knowledge and understanding of life in Leamington in Victorian times, and of museums and archives.

Develop key/transferable skills in learning how to look at objects, using the built environment, problem solving, making deductions, teamwork and communication.

Have developed specific skills in learning to:

• recognise some features in the local area, and to locate them on a map
• find information about the area from studying pictures
• identify features of Victorian buildings
• record features of Victorian buildings
• link objects to the local history of an area
• recall information about the area in Victorian times
• that an area may contain a mixture of old and new buildings
• use maps to help describe some of the characteristic features of the past
• make deductions from physical evidence
• question pictures as interpretations of the past
• find out about the local area in the past from different written sources