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Resources>
Our resources provide a variety of activities for pupils in support of Curriculum for Excellence and National Qualifications.

Workshops>
Our education staff run workshops which give teachers and pupils the opportunity to work with original sources that bring the past to life.

Publications>
Visit details of our Scottish Archives for Schools (SAfS) resource packs and CD-ROM.

Videoconferencing>
From September 2008, we are running a pilot videoconferencing project with schools in East Ayrshire and Fife. Visit this section of our website for updates on our progress.

Continued Professional Development>
The NAS offers workshops in General Register House. These aim to help teachers develop their skills in using archives creatively in their teaching and give them the opportunity to try out some of our resources and activities.

Welcome to our education service. Scottish Archives for Schools is a free educational website designed by the National Archives of Scotland (NAS) to support the teaching of Scottish history, as well as wider areas of the Scottish curriculum, in schools and colleges.

Find out about the history of Scotland and its people from the Wars of Independence to the Second World War. Design a wanted poster for William Wallace; study a selection of medieval documents and seals; find out about the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son, King James, and about Scottish servicemen who fought in both world wars.

John Douglas Hume in the uniform of a naval Flight Sub-Lieutenant, NAS: GD486/193

New resource:
A short life in the sky: the letters of a Scottish pilot, 1915-16 >

Visit our latest resource based on the letters of John Douglas Hume who left Fife at the age of 18, trained as a WW1 pilot and travelled the world. Read his personal accounts of the ‘highs and lows’ in his short but adventurous life. In studying his letters, students can evaluate the content, style and use of language in Douglas Hume’s letters and in doing so, develop their own reading and writing skills.

News:
Launch of A Union for a’ that DVD

The culmination of this 2007 partnership project to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of the Parliaments is the delivery of a new multimedia resource for schools in Scotland.

More news>



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