Places Where People Live & WPS grade 4

Question 0

What is written evidence?

Answer 0

Newspapers
Magazines
Written documents

Question 1

What are visual aids?

Answer 1

Pictures and photographs

Question 2

What is oral evidence?

Answer 2

Interviews with people

Question 3

What are artifacts and physical evidence?

Answer 3

They are objects all around us that give us information. For,example, buildings, street lights, statues

Question 4

What are monuments?

Answer 4

It is a statue of something or someone important in our past.

Question 5

What is a museum?

Answer 5

A museum is a place where we find things that tell us about our past. They can be pictures, photographs, letters, books and objects.

Question 6

What is a Historian?

Answer 6

Historians are people who study the past

Question 7

What was Winterton primary first called?

Answer 7

Morea

Question 8

How many learners were there when the school first opened?

Answer 8

15 learners

Question 9

How did most children travel to school everyday?

Answer 9

They walked or by wagon

Question 10

When was the first school,in Winterton opened?

Answer 10

1905

Question 11

When did the school move to the farmers hall?

Answer 11

1908

Question 12

Why did some children not come back to school at the farmers hall?

Answer 12

Because they could not afford the school fees

Question 13

When did the new government school open and how many children were there?

Answer 13

It opened in 1914 and there were 45 pupils.

Question 14

Why did the whole school close for a term in 1914?

Answer 14

There was an influenza epidemic.

Question 15

What did the school have to do to get its own water?

Answer 15

It dug a borehole, 19 February 1925

Question 16

What is the school motto and what does it mean?

Answer 16

FACTA NON VERBA meaning DEEDS NOT WORDS

Question 17

When were the grounds for the football and basket ball laid out?

Answer 17

1925

Question 18

Why did many children not attend school in March and October 1913?

Answer 18

Because of heavy rains

Question 19

When did Bergville and Winterton first play sport against each other and what sport did they play?

Answer 19

They played soccer against each other in August 1945

Question 20

When did the school divide into 2 houses?

Answer 20

In 1946

Question 21

Who came to Winterton in 1932? What was his job ?

Answer 21

Dr E Peake. He was a dentist and pulled out 83 teeth in one day!

Question 22

When did snow fall in winterton?

Answer 22

On 25 June 1945. School closed early

Question 23

When did the queen of England visit estcourt?

Answer 23

17 March 1947

Question 24

Why did William Stratford not return to school?

Answer 24

Because his horse had died and that was his only transport. He lived far away from school