FREE Curriculum Resources for Upper KS2 and Year 7.
The University of Nottingham commissioned WAT to create Covid 19 Recovery Curriculum Resources based on "Daisies on the Cross".
Using the play the resources enable students to :
1 - reflect safely on their recent experiences through the historical characters and their experiences;
2 - relearn school routines and disciplines;
3 - opportunities to debate, write and have fun.
Click HERE to download the Primary Upper KS2 English / RSHE / History resource
Click HERE to download the Secondary RSHE resource
Using the play the resources enable students to :
1 - reflect safely on their recent experiences through the historical characters and their experiences;
2 - relearn school routines and disciplines;
3 - opportunities to debate, write and have fun.
Click HERE to download the Primary Upper KS2 English / RSHE / History resource
Click HERE to download the Secondary RSHE resource
Following the performances of "Daisies on the Cross", the young women killed in the 1917 munitions factory accident have finally been given a permanent memorial. After over 100 years lying in unmarked graves in Shirebrook cemetry, Shirebrook District Council have erected headstones in memory of Dorothy Prince Brown, Elsie May Garrett and Ethel Gorrill.
After watching the play Leader of Bolsover District Council, Cllr Steve Fritchley, said, “I was so moved by the story that I thought more should be done to remember the young ladies. So after speaking with Shirebrook Town Council it was agreed that memorials should be installed as a lasting reminder of Dorothy, Elsie, Ethel and Winnie.”
Christine Wade, relative of Dorothy Prince Brown, said "I and the rest of the family are absolutely thrilled with the outcome".
These young women pictured above were all workers at the top secret Langwith Munitions Factory during the First World War.
Three of them died in an explosion in March 1918. They were Dorothy Prince Brown (number 1 above), Elsie May Garrett (number 2) and Ethel Gorrill (number 3). Winnie Pegg (number 4) survived with an injury to her leg.
These women who died serving the World War I effort lie in unmarked graves in Shirebrook Cemetery. The University of Nottingham has come together with Whitworks Adventures in Theatre and Brookfield Primary School, Langwith, to create and perform a play commemorating their lives.
Three of them died in an explosion in March 1918. They were Dorothy Prince Brown (number 1 above), Elsie May Garrett (number 2) and Ethel Gorrill (number 3). Winnie Pegg (number 4) survived with an injury to her leg.
These women who died serving the World War I effort lie in unmarked graves in Shirebrook Cemetery. The University of Nottingham has come together with Whitworks Adventures in Theatre and Brookfield Primary School, Langwith, to create and perform a play commemorating their lives.
The project worked with the niece of Dorothy Prince Brown (18), pictured here in her munitions uniform.
Dorothy’s niece, Christine Wade: “How interesting that you’ve visited the graves - we actually went last year a couple to times for the centenary. Coincidentally, Aunt Dorothy is buried next to her grandfather who was the first police sergeant in Shirebrook, which we found quite strange as he had died a couple of years before. I have to say it was a little upsetting to find that none of the girls had headstones - we have contacted the war graves and I emailed the Imperial War Museum to see if they could shed any light but to no avail. I also contacted our local paper to see if they would run an article when it was the centenary but they didn’t want to know so to have this play will be special.”
The Langwith factory was commissioned by Winston Churchill, then Minister of Munitions, to produce perchlorate of ammonia for use in the manufacture of sea mines which were deployed against German U-boats.
