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How to upload to the People's Collection...
Would you like to contribute your content to People's Collection Wales? Not quite sure how to get started? Watch our short video below, then read our easy to follow How To guides to learn how to register an account, upload and publish.For teachers: The skills developed when creating an account and uploading items to People's Collection Wales fulfil many of the requirements of the Digital Competence Framework. Read more in our Teachers Toolbox. Curriculum for Wales 2022Digital Competence Framework

Promote your Learning Materials
Here in the LEARN section you can find educational resources for learners of all ages. Some of these resources have been created by the PCW team, some by our federated partner institutions*, and some by our partners in the community, in education or in the Museums, Libraries and Archives sector.Are you involved in community projects, in education or in the MLA sector? Do you have educational material that you would like to share more widely? Are you working on a project that would be interesting to a learning audience? Do you have an idea for a resource that you would like to develop further? Watch this short video to see How People’s Collection Wales can help you to promote your learning materials * The three federated partner institutions that make up People's Collection Wales are: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, National Library of Wales, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Memory Archive - Dementia
Discover the ‘Memory Archive’ on People's Collection Wales and learn about dementia.Raising dementia awareness develops learners’ knowledge and understanding of this common life-changing condition. It can also provide them with valuable life skills allowing them to support people in their families and communities living with dementia.This resource:will introduce you to the ‘Memory Archive’ on People’s Collection Wales, an archive of images that you can use in reminiscence work with people living with dementiawill introduce you to Alzheimer’s Society’s teaching resources for schools that make it easy to teach and learn about dementiagives guidance on how you can use the Memory Archive in two practical reminiscence activities: Create a Memory Tree and Create a Memory Timelinesign-posts to other free dementia resources, highlighting ones that are available in Welsh and English Foundation PhasePersonal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity, Knowledge and understanding of the worldKey Stage 2, 3 & 4Personal and social educationCurriculum for Wales 2022Health and Wellbeing, Digital Competence Framework Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

COVID Digital Time Capsule
Capture Your pupils' COVID-19 Story.Throughout the centuries we have looked at diaries, photographs, documents and recordings, to help us understand other periods in history. This evidence from the past can allow us to see how people lived their day-to-day lives and how they coped during times of crisis.With your help, we'd like to create a COVID digital time capsule on the People’s Collection Wales website. Can you and your pupils contribute photos, stories and memories of things that changed during the pandemic? This digital record will help current and future generations to understand what it was really like to live through these challenging times. Foundation PhaseDigital competence framework, Personal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity, Knowledge and understanding of the world, Creative developmentKey Stage 2, 3 & 4Digital competence framework, Literacy skills, Education for sustainable development and global citizenshipCurriculum for Wales 2022Expressive Arts, Health and Well-being, Languages, Literacy and Communication Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this Teaching Resource, and see our 'Rainbows in Windows' content here.

Welcome teachers to a Learn section designed just for you. Search our Teaching Resources by key stage and topic below, or use the Teaching Toolbox for practical help with the Digital Competence Framework

Canals, Railways & Ports - Transport for...

Rebecca Riots

The Linton Brothers

Turbulent Times

Shops and Shopkeepers

Swansea in the 1960s

Leisure time 1960s

Celebrations 1960s

Clothes 1960s

Transport 1960s

Food and farming 1960s

Houses and Homes 1960s

Education 1960s

The Landscape of Slate - Falcon Hildred drawings

Twentieth Century Welsh Artists

Using aerial photographs

Homes in the 1950s
After WW2 many thousands of houses had to be built quickly, to give people homes after bombing and slum clearance.These were constructed using new materials and gave work to the unemployed. Grants improved existing houses, e.g. building inside bathrooms. Key Stage 2History CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Buckley Pottery

Chapel Photographs to support 'Look Out...
A collection of chapel images to support a learning resource on Hwb. The resource on Hwb was created by the Swansea Network Project and it is called 'Look Out There’. Foundation StageKnowledge and Understanding of the WorldKey Stage 2Religious Education CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

The Woollen Industry

The Dairy Industry

Cockle Industry in South West Wales

The Slate Industry
The spectacular rise of the slate industry in north-west Wales began in the late 18th century, and reached its greatest scale in the late 19th century. In this resource you will find several collections of images, objects and stories relating to slate mining in Wales. This includes 'The End of the Line'; a collection of oral histories gathered in a series of intergenerational digital story-telling sessions held at the National Slate Museum in 2009. In these films, recorded in Welsh and English, people share their memories of the period when the Dinorwig quarry closed in 1969. Foundation Stage History: Local History Key Stage 2 History: 19th and 20th century Collection We have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Children's toys

Lesson 3: Publishing your own content with...
Publish a collection on People’s Collection Wales with good metadata and correct copyright information Key Stage 2Digital Competence FrameworkCitizenship: 1.1 Identity, image and reputation; 1.3 Digital rights, licensing and ownershipInteracting and collaborating: 2.2 Collaboration, 2.3 Storing and sharingProducing: 3.2 Creating; 3.3 Evaluating and improving Lesson PlanThis is a complete lesson plan. Follow it exactly or select parts of it to make you own lessons. It is part of a set of six lessons called Copyright and metadata made easy.

Lesson 2: Metadata - Looking for a needle in a...

Lesson 1: Copyright - know your digital rights

John Piper Project: Ysgol Moelfre

John Piper Project: Ysgol Bodedern

John Piper Workshop