Primary School Studies in Ryde Cemetery
There are plenty of opportunities for using Ryde Cemetery to cover all aspects of the Primary Curriculum.
Group Work
When working with groups of children it is worthwhile naming each group after a particular person buried within the cemetery and with an interesting tomb/memorial and life story. Each group then has the extra activity of finding the grave of the person their group is named after and can do further internet research on this person afterwards. See links to information cards on suggested names.
- Thomas Dashwood (Single A4 sheet)
- Dr Benjamin Archer Kent (Single A4 sheet)
- Captain George Harris (Single A4 sheet)
All the resources below are in .pdf format and a pdf reader, such as Adobe, is required to open the files. You can download Adobe Reader free from here:
- Cross Curricular Primary School Studies (A4 3-fold leaflet)
- Ideas for Art Activities at Ryde Cemetery (A4 3-fold leaflet)
- Ten ideas for Creative Writing at Ryde Cemetery (14 A4 sheets)
- Geography at Ryde Cemetery (Single A4 sheet)
- General map of Ryde Cemetery (Single A4 sheet)
- Grid Reference Map of Old Cemetery Grid Reference Map of Old Cemetery (Single A4 sheet)
- Questions on Grid Reference Map (Single A4 sheet)
- Dead Good Maths– Introduction
- 1. Memorial Survey (4 sides of A4)
- 2. Grid References (2 sides of A4) map and Questions and Answers sheet
- 3. Measuring Angles (4 sides of A4) includes instructions, maps and record sheet
- 4. Path Measurement Exercise (2 sides of A4) instructions and map
- 5. Dates and Ages Exercise (3 sides of A4) instructions, map and spidergram
- 6. Symmetry and Tessellation (2 sides of A4) suggestions and ideas for sketching
- Victorian Studies at Ryde Cemetery (coming soon)
- Symbolism at Ryde Cemetery (coming soon)
- World War One Studies – Introduction
- Group Name information cards
- Group Leaders Notes for WW1 Walk
- Finding the graves
- WW1 School Walk map