Box 24 Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale is an important individual in history and this box contains all the resources you’ll need to illustrate this to your pupils. The box includes a full outfit for Florence Nightingale which could be used as part of a role play exercise, where one child may take the role of Florence and have her classmates interview her about her experiences as a Nurse during the Crimean war. Artefacts are also included to illustrate the difference between the health service in Florence’s time and today.

Ideal for use with Key Stage 1, year 2

Key learning objectives

• History: To enable pupils to explore what life was like for Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, by handling artefacts and costumes and by taking part in group activities.

Links with unit 4 of the QCA scheme of work: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?

• Speaking and Listening: To encourage pupils to work effectively as a member of a group using speaking and listening skills.
• Literacy: To explore the role of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War using a variety of literary sources.
• Citizenship: To understand the role of people who help us in society.

Links to unit 4 of the QCA scheme of work: People who help us.

Box contents

• Costume of Florence Nightingale and items she would have used with wounded soldiers, a modern nurses uniform and a selection of objects from a modern hospital.
• Resources include photographs, letters, training pamphlet, postcard, Florence’s certificate, and audio tape, video, labels for display and books.