Places Where People Live & WPS grade 4 Flashcards
What is written evidence?
Newspapers
Magazines
Written documents
What are visual aids?
Pictures and photographs
What is oral evidence?
Interviews with people
What are artifacts and physical evidence?
They are objects all around us that give us information. For,example, buildings, street lights, statues
What are monuments?
It is a statue of something or someone important in our past.
What is a museum?
A museum is a place where we find things that tell us about our past. They can be pictures, photographs, letters, books and objects.
What is a Historian?
Historians are people who study the past
What was Winterton primary first called?
Morea
How many learners were there when the school first opened?
15 learners
How did most children travel to school everyday?
They walked or by wagon
When was the first school,in Winterton opened?
1905
When did the school move to the farmers hall?
1908
Why did some children not come back to school at the farmers hall?
Because they could not afford the school fees
When did the new government school open and how many children were there?
It opened in 1914 and there were 45 pupils.
Why did the whole school close for a term in 1914?
There was an influenza epidemic.
What did the school have to do to get its own water?
It dug a borehole, 19 February 1925
What is the school motto and what does it mean?
FACTA NON VERBA meaning DEEDS NOT WORDS
When were the grounds for the football and basket ball laid out?
1925
Why did many children not attend school in March and October 1913?
Because of heavy rains
When did Bergville and Winterton first play sport against each other and what sport did they play?
They played soccer against each other in August 1945
When did the school divide into 2 houses?
In 1946
Who came to Winterton in 1932? What was his job ?
Dr E Peake. He was a dentist and pulled out 83 teeth in one day!
When did snow fall in winterton?
On 25 June 1945. School closed early
When did the queen of England visit estcourt?
17 March 1947
Why did William Stratford not return to school?
Because his horse had died and that was his only transport. He lived far away from school
