History for 4th Class

A genuine research enquiry carried by each group across the module. This is where the outcome's verb — research — is actually met. Sources are the school's own local records: place names, maps, monuments, listed buildings and the 1926 census.

The homes outcome, widened. The class reads the whole built environment — the workplace, the public building, the ruin — and asks who was inside each and what their day was, dating fabric and tracing change of use across centuries.

Ordinary life in medieval Ireland, roughly 1150 to 1500, reached only through buildings, dug-up objects, documents about the powerful, and the landscape. The period forces the class to work without photographs or written records of ordinary people — the reliability problem made concrete.

Folklore, sport, music, custom and belief collected from the children's own families and traced further back than living memory. The class is again the primary source, and every item keeps its credit line. Traditions are described, never ranked.

The wider-world scale. Ancient Rome in depth — chosen because its reach touched Britain and Ireland and because it left abundant everyday evidence — then one non-European ancient society beside it, stories people carried, and children's lives elsewhere today.