Education resources

Want to use more primary sources in your classroom? From this page you can download free resource and activity packs, all based on primary sources held in the Essex Record Office archives, for use in your classroom, along with background notes and suggested activities.

Victorian Children

There are three sets of resources you can use to explore Victorian life with your students through real historical documents. Each resource takes a different approach. One makes a comparison between a Victorian school and a modern school using photographs. The second, looks at the contents of a Victorian school log book. The last resource uses the Census to look at Victorian life outside the classroom.

Victorian Children education resources.

Essex at War, 1914-1918

This resource pack, aimed at secondary school students, uses over 20 sources telling stories of Essex people and places during the First World War. It includes images of the sources along with background notes and suggestions on how they might be used in History, English or other classes.

Essex at War education resources

Saffron Walden on the Map

This resource pack, aimed a KS2 pupils, uses images of three key historic maps of Saffron Walden from the Essex Record Office’s collections to explore continuity and change in this historic market town over time. It can also be used to investigate how we can use maps as sources to find out about the past.

Saffron Walden on the Map education resources

The Floods of 1953

This pack, aimed at KS1 and KS2 pupils, contains three PowerPoints and Teachers Notes with background to the events of January 31st, 1953, along with some suggestions for class activities. Activities have also been provided by the Environment Agency.

There are three versions of this pack targeted at the most flooded communities of Harwich and Dovercourt, Canvey Island and Jaywick.

The Floods of 1953 education resources

Marconi: Aerials, Radios & Valves - Art Activity Pack

This art activity pack, aimed at KS1 and KS2, provides a provides a range of activities focused around the pioneering work of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi and the Marconi Company he founded in Chelmsford developed and built the technology required for the wireless communication that we rely on today. 

Marconi: Aerials, Radios & Valves education resources