Autumn 1
We are so excited to start a new year 6 history topic! We will be learning about some key people from this village and their impact on WW2.
As historians, we will be using the following skills:
- Recognise primary and secondary sources (enquiry).
- Bring knowledge gathered from several sources together in a fluent account (organisation and communication).
- Devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference (enquiry).
- To know that no single source of evidence gives the full answer to questions about the past (interpreting sources).
- Use relevant dates and terms (chronology).
- To select and organise information to produce structured work, making appropriate use of dates and terms (organisation and communication).
Key Knowledge
- To know some of the main reasons why Britain went to war in 1939 and some of the countries and individuals involved.
- To know that the British government introduced the National Service Act (conscription) to increase the number of men in active service.
- To use records, memorials and documents to find out about people from the locality who fought in WW2.
- To know about other roles taken on by people in the local area during WW2 ( ARP, reserve police etc).
- To know how women from the locality contributed to the war effort.
- To know that children were evacuated from cities during the war.
- To know that evacuees were on roll at our school and taught in the memorial hall.