Y7 Basing House History Day Trip

Please note that all of the details provided below are SUBJECT TO CHANGE. The illustrations are taken from previous years’ trips and cannot be guaranteed.   

Audience: Year 7 (Two trips - places will be allocated according to students working groups)
Trip Organiser: Mrs A Binding (Head of History)                                               
Approx Cost Per Pupil: £22 (Upon application)
Pupil Premium Criteria: May apply for this trip
Limited Places: 120 - 180 (Missed Opportunity Criteria may apply)
Usual Month of Departure: May (Dates to be confirmed in the Trip Bulletin)
Opens for Applications: Tuesday 2 January 2024
Usual Duration: 1 day
Departs & Returns in School Hours: Yes
Packed Lunch Required: Yes
Term Time or Holiday: Term Time
Method(s) of Transport: Coach
Venue: BASING HOUSE, Basingstoke

Final arrangements will be provided upon confirmation that your child has been allocated a place. 

 

WHAT TO EXPECT 

Students will work together as part of an investigative team to examine a range of evidence. They will use the site, artefacts recovered there and other resources to uncover facts about the Civil War at Basing House and its impact on the lives of soldiers and local people.

TRIP DAY OVERVIEW 

  • Coach to Basing House
  • Introduction
  • Session 1: Basing House Grange (teacher and facilitator – led)
  • Lunch break
  • Session 2: Basing House Citadel (Ruins) – treasure hunt
  • Coach to Calthorpe Park School

 

National Curriculum Links

KS3 History:

  • understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions;
  • understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed;
  • gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.

A local history study:

  • a study over time, testing how far sites in their locality reflect aspects of national history

 


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