How can we celebrate local significant individuals and places? - Judy Fryd, 8 Westfield Avenue, Harpenden

With the launch of the National Blue Plaques scheme, run by Historic England, this activity allows pupils to consider what makes a local, significant individual.

Pupils will then use a range of historical sources to find out more about the campaigner Judy Fryd and her work to help children and adults with learning disabilities.

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Teaching idea

These resources are designed for use in the Key Stage 2 classroom. The use of local stories and topics is intended to make the past more relevant, real, accessible, and interesting, though Judy Fryd may also be considered a nationally and internationally significant figure, making this resource useful for schools across the country.

Pupils are encouraged to consider what makes a significant individual, linking back to learning they may have carried out in Key Stage 1. They then interrogate a range of historical sources, allowing them to develop historical enquiry skills, relevant for all topics.

Judy’s significance is that she founded the first society in the world that was dedicated to helping children and adults with learning disabilities. She spent over 50 years campaigning for them and their families.

Learning aims and outcomes

Pupils will:

  • Learn about significant historical events, people, and places in their own locality
  • Study an aspect of history dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality
  • Gain an understanding of historical concepts, such as significance
  • Make connections and draw contrasts with previous learning
  • Begin to understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims

Prior knowledge

  • No prior knowledge is required

Also of interest

Judy Fryd