Curriculum links by theme
Industry & Manufacturing
Curriculum links
Key Stage 2
Design technology
- Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
- Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world (e.g. the switch from metal to plastics).
Science
- Forces – recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
History
- Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901.
Key Stage 3
History
- Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901.
- Britain as the first industrial nation – the impact on society; party politics, extension of the franchise and social reform.
Science
- Energy changes and transfers; simple machines give bigger force but at the expense of smaller movement (and vice versa).
- Other processes that involve energy transfer: changing motion, dropping an object, completing an electrical circuit, stretching a spring, metabolism of food, burning fuels.
Suggested research questions
Key Stage 2
- What other items were made in the Jewellery Quarter? How are they similar to the products made by Newman Brothers?
- Where do the items that you use daily come from? How has that changed over time?
- Newman Brothers was known for its goods made by the stamping process. How does this process work? Where might it still be used today?
- What would it have been like to work at Newman Brothers? Describe the work environment using each of the five senses.
Key Stage 3
- How has the manufacturing of items changed over time?
- Why did Newman Brothers move their factory to Fleet Street in 1894? How did the manufacturing industry that was centred in this area affect Birmingham’s growth?
- What can we learn about how Newman Brothers changed over time from the factory building?
- Act as a Health and Safety Inspector at Newman Brothers during the Victorian times, what concerns would you have?
Suggested Activities
- Categorise the various items that Newman Brothers sold. Design a web page that could be used to sell their products.
- Write instructions for making a handle using the stamping process.
- Create a Health & Safety poster for the Stamp Room.
- Write a diary entry as a new employee who has just started work in the Stamp Room for the first time.
Links & Downloadable Resources
The Development of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter_An overview
Different products were made within the factory
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/die-block/
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/the-stamp-shop/
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/the-shroud-room/
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/the-casting-shop/
The Stamp Shop at Newman Brothers
Changes in manufacturing
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/die-block/
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/gateway-object-nb-product-boxes/
http://www.rhnuttall.co.uk/blog/birminghams-manufacturing-history/
Themes: Industry and Manufacturing
Manufacturing processes used at Newman Brothers
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/newman-brothers-ledger/
http://www.coffinworks.org/objects/gateway-object-nb-product-boxes/
Film Resources
Manufacturing processes
The casting process
Shrouds and soft goods
Making a force | Part 1
Making a force | Part 2
By hand to machinery | Engraving
Health and safety warning
Health and safety at work
Changes in manufacturing
Further curriculum links
