Early Settlers

Expedition Date: October

Location: Carter House

Expedition Description: Carter House Experience: Life of the Early Settlers

Step back in time, P4 explorers! Join the St. David’s Historical Society at Carter House for a hands-on adventure into Bermuda’s early settlement. Through exciting storytelling and role-play, students experience life as early settlers, exploring how people survived, worked and made important decisions. Pupils discover how goods were traded through bartering, investigate historical artefacts and take on the role of problem-solvers as they decide what was needed to survive on the island.

Students will:

• Explore how early Bermudians lived and worked
• Understand how goods were traded through bartering
• Identify key economic activities and valuable resources
• Investigate historical artefacts through observation and inquiry
• Reflect on decision-making and setting priorities

Curriculum Links (P4 Social Studies):

• 4.SS.E1c – Describe the development of the main economic activities and labour force in Bermuda from 1612 to 1684

Vocabulary Voyage

The P4 Early Settlers thematic unit is built around the mentor text supporting ELA curriculum-aligned literacy learning alongside an experiential school visit with AgraLiving as part of the Horizons Programme.

The Vocabulary Voyage offers a set of optional resources designed to enrich language learning in an engaging and practical way. Three short, flexible vocabulary activities encourage pupils to develop language through through small-group discussion, collaboration and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, provide structured opportunities for pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts.

These resources ssupport oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.