Book a free self-led visit to Thornton Abbey and Gatehouse and organise your day to suit your curriculum objectives.
The gatehouse walls are wonderfully detailed and show the very early use of this kind of brick work, dating to the 1300s. Explore centuries of post-medieval graffiti on the back of the gatehouse, including a sketch of a ship, and encourage your students to ponder who may have been responsible for these carvings.
Can your pupils find traces of the moat and imagine how the octagonal chapter house once looked?
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KS1 History: local history studies, significant people and places
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KS1 Geography: Develop knowledge about their locality
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KS1-2 History: Local history study, a unit of study after 1066
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KS3 History: Development of Church, state and society in Britain
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KS3 Religious Education: How and why individuals and communities express the meanings of their beliefs and values
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KS3 Geography: Human geography
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KS4 History: OCR History A: Study of the historic environment; OCR History B: History around us, British depth study
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KS4 Religious Education: Investigate and analyse the beliefs and practices of religions
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KS5 History: OCR A Level: English government and the church, The church and Medieval heresy