History for 4th Class

The year's organising idea, built first: two honest sources can disagree, some accounts survive and others never existed, and a historian says how confident they are and why. Every later module leans on this foundation of reliability.

1. 1 Two People, One Event
2. 2 A Longer Line
3. 3 Who Got Written Down?
4. 4 The Yard After Break Sample lesson
5. 5 How Confident Are We?
6. 6 Our First Real Question

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.

1. 7 The Night of the Big Wind
2. 8 Maps of the Same Place, Centuries Apart
3. 9 The Oldest Thing Still Standing
4. 10 Working the Sources
5. 11 Where the Sources Disagree
6. 12 What We Found, and How Sure We Are

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.

1. 13 Reading a Building Properly
2. 14 Inside the Working House
3. 15 The Working Building Walk
4. 16 What the Street Was, and What It Is
5. 17 The Public Building
6. 18 The Ruin

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.

1. 19 A World Without Photographs
2. 20 Food, Cloth and the Working Year
3. 21 The Castle or the Tower House
4. 22 Who Held the Land
5. 23 The Monastic Site
6. 24 What We Can Say, and What We Cannot

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.

1. 25 Collecting Properly
2. 26 What Came Back
3. 27 How Old Is That Story?
4. 28 The Games and the Club
5. 29 The Year This Place Keeps
6. 30 Kept, Changed, Lost

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.

1. 31 How Far Back, and How Far Away
2. 32 Ordinary Roman Lives
3. 33 What Rome Built, and How Far It Reached
4. 34 Two Ancient Worlds
5. 35 Stories People Carried
6. 36 Children, Somewhere Else, Now