1. Why are the events at ‘Manchester Hill’ still remembered 100 years on?
ENQUIRY
Why are the events at ‘Manchester Hill’ still remembered 100 years on?
Key Stage 3

2. What is your impression of him?
Who is this man?
What is your impression of him?
What questions do you want to ask?

3. Wilfrith Elstob was born in Chichester, Sussex, United Kingdom on September 8th 1888 to Frances Alice and Rev. Canon John George Elstob. He had three brothers; Noel Chamberlain Elstob was born 1885, Eric Bramley Elstob was born 1886 and Auberon Elstob was born April However, his family soon moved to Cheshire.

4. Wilfrith Elstob died here, near St Quentin in France, on 21st March So, who was Wilfrith Elstob and why was he so important to the people of Manchester?

5. Each group is going to have a set of sources.
TASK
Each group is going to have a set of sources.
You need to use the sources to answer one of the following key questions.
Question 1: The man: Who was Wilfrith Elstob?
Question 2: Who were the Manchester Pals?
Question 3: What happened on 21st March 1918?
Question 4: How are they/should they be remembered today?
This is planned to be a group task. Although it says to give students one of the key questions, you may decide to ask students to investigate all questions

6. Who was Wilfrith Elstob?
Use your sources to create a spider diagram to answer your key question
You will then feedback what you have found out to the rest of the class.
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Who was Wilfrith Elstob?
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This could be done as individual key questions or each group looks at every question but the questions are divided up amongst students. Students could create presentations rather than large spider diagrams.

7. What do we now know? Who was Wilfrith Elstob?
Who were the Manchester Pals?
What happened on the 21st March 1918?
How are they/should they be remembered?

8. So, why should we remember the Battle of Manchester Hill?

9. How is the Battle of Manchester Hill being remembered in 2018?
Between 18th March and 21st March 2018, 25 schools from Manchester and the Greater Manchester area will travel to Belgium and France to visit key sites from the First World War.
This will culminate in a memorial service in France on the 21st March, 100 years after the battle.
On April 15th 2018, there will be a memorial service in Manchester Cathedral to commemorate the Battle of Manchester Hill.
Primary schools from around the city have been involved in researching the Battle of Manchester Hill and writing letters and diary entries as if they were soldiers participating in the battle. These will be displayed in Manchester Central Library.