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¾ People keep safely things which are important to them.

¾ Possessions can tell us about people and their lives.

Way to Work (Means)

Have the children bring in a ‘robust antique’ on the day of the lesson. It is best to

give parents plenty of prior warning, and explain that the children will be asked to
draw and write about their antique, so they need to know a bit about it.

1. People keep things which are important to them. God told Moses to keep the stone

tablets with the Ten Commandments on them in a special place. Does anybody know
where? God’s words were valuable so they did not lose these stones or throw them
away.

Things may be important to people because they are valuable or beautiful or they
bring back memories. As families go through life they tend to collect many things or
possessions. Perhaps your mummy says sometimes that you have far too much
stuff in your house, and you need to have a clear out. Some things you can easily
throw away, while other things you like to keep.

Antiques are old things which have been kept safely, and have not been thrown out,
because someone has felt they were important. I wonder what sort of old things

we will see today. And I wonder what we can learn about the people who have kept
them safe.

2. Refer to the television programme called ‘The Antiques’ Road-Show’, in which
people in a town bring their antiques to a particular place, in order to learn about

them from antiques’ experts who have gathered there. Everybody else can learn
about them too.

Today you have brought in your antique, and you can tell us what you know about it.

3. Ask the children to get their antiques and have each child show his/her antique in
turn. Ask questions to encourage the children to be history detectives, eg How can
you tell this is old? What materials were used to make this? Why do you think
someone kept this?

4. Suggest making a class museum for the day, to which another class could be invited
to visit. Explain that the children need to provide some information about each

antique. Ask them to draw and write about their antique. Suggest they draw it as

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