Planning the Garden City

Pupils will be transported back in time to the year 1910. Working in the original Drawing Office of Barry Parker’s Architects, pupils will design and create their very own Garden City!

This workshop offers pupils an insight into the concept, design and layout of a Garden City. With access to the town’s original development maps, and images from the museum collection, this learning experience brings history into the present.
 

Curriculum links with this activity:

History KS1

• 3 - Historical interpretation;
• 4 - Historical enquiry;
• 6 - The way of life of people in the more distant past who lived in the local area or elsewhere in Britain.

Geography KS1

• 3    - Identify and describe what places are like [for example, in terms of landscape, jobs, weather], identify and describe where places are [for example, position on a map, whether they are on a river] recognise how places have become the way they are and how they are changing [for example, the quality of the environment in a street], recognise how places compare with other places [for example, compare the local area with places elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Art and Design KS1

• 4    – Knowledge and understanding, 5 D - investigating different kinds of art, craft and design [for example, in the locality, in original and reproduction form, during visits to museums, galleries and sites, on the internet].

Pre-visit Activities - The Garden City

Prepare for your visit with a Teachers Pack, full of supporting resources provided by the Museum. Introduce the ideas of the Garden City through a series of photographs from the museum’s collection. Pupils can identify the changes in housing and living standards, with recognition of the living and working benefits of both town and country.

Post- Visit Activities - Cheap Cottages Activity Box

Take the arts and crafts of the Garden City back to school with our new Cheap Cottage Activity Box. Pupils can re-create Letchworth’s Cheap Cottages Exhibition with a variety of fun-filled class activities. With a broad range of supporting resources, images and worksheets, pupils will experience a famous event of Letchworth’s history.

This activity box with teacher’s pack is available for loan for a small charge of £5 per week.

The Museum’s education resources are fully inclusive, catering for all schools.

We have been awarded several grants for our work with SEN Schools.