Welcome to
Making History

Making History is designed to help children discover something in their family or cultural history that inspires them to follow their dreams. All the students become history ‘detectives’ in the process!  Students ultimately create a short film of their journey of discovery. Working on the premise ‘Everybody Has A Story’, the project opens up a world of personal historical & cultural discovery for students using leading digital technology and enables them to tell their story through film, creating their own unique historical legacy.

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How it works

A key part of Making History is developing a generation's ability not only to discover the stories of their ancestors but to capture these on film.  Learning to develop, edit and film these stories will help them to find and share their "voice".

1

Research

Talk to your family and choose one side to research online & offline

2

Discover

Find out amazing things about your family and build your family tree

3

Create

Time to share your story plan and create your very own film

See it in action

See it in action

Featured Films

CASPER (GRASMERE PRIMARY)
LUCIE (GRASMERE PRIMARY)
STELLA (WESTGATE ACADEMY)

Click on the links above to see our current Featured Films.  Come back to see others as they change on a regular basis.  

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our films here

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The Making History project seeks to connect young people to society on a deeper level through the power of family history and personalised learning, enabled by IT & digital technology; and to develop & enhance practical and social skills that are vital to their futures.

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The award winning Donate mobile giving platform provides an immediate, safe and easy to use means to make donations to Making History. And, because Donate is a charity, donors can be sure that administration and processing costs are kept to a minimum.

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Head teachers have told us that "there is nothing more empowering than the Making History project" and that it has "revolutionised learning”

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