Curriculum Links, Section 4

20th Century Schools in Raheny
 

The child should be enabled to:

• study the development of the school over a period,
• relate the history of the school to the history of education in the parish or local area,
• explore the history of the school in the wider context of educational development in Ireland,
• use documentary and other sources.
   

The child should be enabled to

• become familiar with aspects of the history of games in the locality.
   

The child should be enabled to:

• become familiar with aspects of the lives of these people,
• examine and become familiar with evidence which informs us about the lives of people in the periods studied.
   

The child should be enabled to:

• listen to local people telling stories about their past,
• examine some simple relevant evidence,
• use appropriate timelines.
   

The child should be enabled to:

• identify examples of change and continuity in the 'line of development',
• identify the factors which may have caused or prevented change,
• refer to or use appropriate timelines.
   
   

• develop an understanding of time and chronology so as to place people objects and events within a broad historical sequence.
   

• develop an understanding of change and continuity by exploring similarities and differences between the past and present and between different periods in the past.
   

• recognise some factors which may have caused, prevented or delayed changes in the past.
   

• examine and use critically historical evidence
   

• communicate historical understanding in a variety of ways.
   

• imagine and discuss the feelings and motives of people in the past,
• discuss how an event in the past may have been perceived by those who participated in it.