Galbally NationalSchool

History Policy

INFANTSYEAR 1YEAR 2

All strand units as on Pg 15-20 of Curriculum Statement

1st & 2ndYEAR 1YEAR2

All strand units as on Pg 22 – 31 special emphasis on the important Irish myths and legends based on Tarantula Publishing Co.

As there will be a problem with class division teachers will collaborate to ensure all strands/strand units are covered and as far as possible none will be repeated.

3rd & 4thYEAR 1YEAR 2

LOCAL STUDIES

Games & PastimesHomes

Building sites &My School

ruins in my locality

STORY

Stories from the lives of people in the past will be integrated in all strands but 5 specific stand alone lessons and this will be integrated with Learning Support/Resource.

Myths and legends will also be integrated through out the curriculum but 5 myths and legends will be studies in greater detail.

EARLY PEOPLE AND ANCIENT SOCIETIES

YEAR 1YEAR 2

VikingsStone Age

North AmericansAfrican People

IRISH SOCIETY WORK AND CULTURE IN THE PAST

NormansMedieval towns and countryside

18th Centuryin Ireland & Europe

Life in the 19th Century

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME

Food and FarmingCommunications

Shops and FairsHomes and Houses

5th and 6thYEAR 1YEAR 2

LOCAL STUDIES

Feasts and FestivalsHomes

My locality through the agesSchools

STORY

Stories from the lives of people in the past will be integrated in all strands but 5 specific stand alone lessons and this will be integrated with Learning Support/Resource

Myths and legends will also be integrated through out the curriculum but 5 myths and legends will be studied in greater detail.

EARLY PEOPLE AND ANCIENT SOCIETIES

MaoirisCelts

EgyptiansAztecs

LIFE SOCIETY WORK AND CULTURE IN THE PAST

YEAR 1YEAR 2

* Life in Norman Ireland * Life in Ireland since 1950’s

* Life in World War 2* Language and Culture in late 19th

and early 20th Century Ireland

ERAS OF CHANGE AND CONFLICT

YEAR 1YEAR 2

Renaissance and ReformationWorld War 1

FamineChangingLand ownership in

19th Century Ireland

POLITICS CONFLICT AND SOCIETY

YEAR 1YEAR 2

* 16th & 17th Century Ireland* 1916 and the foundation of the state

* Revolutionary change in America, * Northern Ireland

France and Ireland

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME

YEAR 1YEAR 2

* Clothes* Energy and Power

* Nomads* Barter, Trade and Money

LOCAL HISTORY AUTIT
SCHOOL / PUBLIC BUILDINGS / HERITAGE FEATURES / ENVIRONMENTAL/NATURAL HERITAGE
Buildings / Community Centre / Moore Abby / Ancient Roadway
Old Creamery / Library / Duntryleague / River Aherlow
Gleneffy House / Garda Station / Darby’s Bed / Light House
Cultural Heritage / Coursing Club Hall / Mass Rock in Corderry / Duntryleague Hill
Clonbeg Holy Well / ClonbegChurch / Dolmen in Corderry / Corderry
Galbally Farmer / Kearney’ Thatched Cottage / Kearney’s Moat / Ditches
Kate Frazer’ Poem / O’Donoghue’s Thatched cottage / Clongeg Holy Well / CountyBoundaries
TidyTown Plaque / Vernacular House (Aherlow View) / Christ the King / MitchelstownCaves
Local Place Names / Gleneffy Gorge
Street Names – Old St / Ruins in Graveyard
Lowtown / Height of the Mill
Bennet’s Cross / Duntryleague Ring Fort
Con Neill’s Bend / Gleneffy House
Cussen’s Moat
Light House

People of Interest

  • Garda Christy McCormack
  • Nell Dillon
  • John Kearney
  • Canon Denis Talbot
  • Retired Principal Tom Doherty
  • Local Musician Roy Galvin

Artefacts

Tom Ryan – Old Coursing Club Hall – Auctions

Trails

  • Trails to Darbey’s Bed
  • Trails to Corderry
  • Trails to Christ the King
  • Trails to Clonbeg

New Methodologies

Over the next 2 years we will introduce and explore the following new methodologies:

  1. Oral Evidence
  2. ICT
  3. Pictures and Photos
  4. Use of Environment

Resources

Claire – 1st – 10 Websites

Sarah – 2nd – 10 Websites

Caroline – 3rd – 10 Websites

Breda – 4th– 10

Samples of Novels

  • Silver Sword
  • Diary of Anne Frank
  • I am David
  • A Girl called Blue
  • Under the Hawthorn Tree
  • Ice Man

Time and Chronology

Each teacher is responsible for having an appropriate Time Line in their classroom.

SchoolMuseum

Due to lack of space each class will have a mini museum appropriate to the curriculum in that class.

Assessment

Teacher observation.

Teacher designed tasks and tests.

Work samples portfolios projects.

Recording Progress

  • Correction of homework and activities
  • Observation of individual/paired group activities
  • Oral participation
  • P/T meeting discussion.
  • School report
  • Assessment of projects

Year Plan for History

Year
1 / Local Studies / Story (Selection) / Early People and Ancient Societies / Life, Society, Work and Culture in the Past / Eras of Change and conflict / Politics, Conflict and society / Continuity and change over Time
Third Class / Games & Pastimes
Building Sites & Ruins / Fionn & the Giant
Brown Bull of Cooley
Children of Lir / Vikings
North Americans / Normans
Countryside in Ireland / Food & Farming
Shops & Fairs
Mysterious Beggarman
Leprauchauns in Ireland
Fourth Class / Games & Pastimes
Building Sites & Ruins in my locality / Vikings
North Americans / Normans
Countryside in Ireland / Food & Farming
Shops & Fairs
Fifth Class / Buildings & Ruins / Fionn MacCumhaill / Egyptians / World War 2 / 19th Century Ireland / French Revolution / Nomads
Going to school / St Colmcille / Aztecs / Soldier of Ireland / 1916 Civil War
Sixth Class / Northern Ireland

Classroom Planning

Year Plan for History

Year
2 / Local Studies / Story (Selection) / Early People and Ancient Societies / Life, Society, Work and Culture in the Past / Eras of Change and conflict / Politics, Conflict and society / Continuity and change over Time
Third Class / Homes
My School / Oísín in Tír na Nóg
Setanta
Salmon of Knowledge
Cú Chulainn
Romulus & Remus / Stone Age
African People / Medieval Towns
18th Century Europe / Communications
Homes & Houses
Fourth Class / Homes
My School / Stone Age
African People / Medieval Towns
18th Century Europe / Communications
Homes & Houses
Fifth Class / Local History / St Brendan / Celts
Maoiris / Normans / Reformation / 16th century Ireland
Place Names / Androcles / 18th Century Ireland / Renaissance / 17th Century Ireland / Clothes
Sixth Class / Famine / Battle of the Boyne
1798
Daniel O’Connell

Classroom Planning

Tick the classroom approaches and methodologies and the working as an historian skills/concepts used in the activities.

SKILLS AND CONCEPTS / Curriculum Document Pages / APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGIES / Today’s Activity
Time and Chronology / Artefacts
Change and Continuity / Personal and Family History
Cause and Effect / Documentary Evidence
Using Evidence / Using pictures and photographs
Synthesis and Communication / Oral Evidence
Empathy / Using the Environment
Story
Drama and Role Play
ICT