Upon approaching this article on teaching the local history component of the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 I decided to focus on one school, to look at what they normally deliver, and to put forward suggestions that could be used to enhance their existing unit of study.

I visited Pencoys Primary School, Four Lanes, Cornwall, a village school in the heart of old copper and tin mining country, with a view across hilltops and mine stacks down to the north coast. For the local history study with Year 2 they are planning on continuing the normal topic focus of examining the history of local town, St Ives...