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Key Stage 3 Educational Resources

Together with Will Bailey-Watson, Lecturer in Education at the University of Reading, & Tim Jenner, the project has created lesson plans for teachers looking to teach KS3 students about this topic.

These lessons are designed for teachers working in coalfield areas, where the history of the miners’ strike is an important part of community heritage. Three lessons, aimed at Key Stage 3 students, aim to:

  • Introduce an authentic historical inquiry into the miners’ strike in a particular locality
  • Demonstrate the importance of women’s experiences in history 
  • Bring historians into the classroom, with interviews with Dr Natalie Thomlinson as part of the lessons 
  • Introduce the theory and practice of oral history, with students conducting and analysing their own oral history interview.

Teachers’ notes, PowerPoints, and worksheets for each lesson can be downloaded below. 

For more background on the miners’ strike and women’s experiences in the strike, as well as a bank of clips from the project’s oral history interviews for use in research and teaching, see our online exhibition

While these resources are designed for teachers in coalfield communities, the project team would be very happy to discuss how they might be adapted for other contexts and to focus on other historical inquiries, such as the history of migration, or the history of the shift to comprehensive schooling. 

We would also love to hear feedback from any teachers using the resources. Please get in touch with Natalie Thomlinson (n.thomlinson@reading.ac.uk) or Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (f.sutcliffe-braithwaite@ucl.ac.uk). 

Before Lesson 1 
Gauging household perspectives - homework worksheet
Lesson 1 
Lesson 1 Powerpoint
Lesson 1 Worksheet
Lesson 1 Teacher Notes
Lesson 2 
Lesson 2 Powerpoint
Lesson 2 Homework Worksheet
Lesson 2 Teacher Notes
Lesson 3 
Lesson 3 Transcripts of Exhibition Oral History
Lesson 3 Teacher Notes 
Lesson 3 Extract for Homework Worksheet 
Lesson 3 Worksheet 
Lesson 3 Powerpoint