Schools & Young People

1. History Key Stages 1 and 2  chronological understanding
2. knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
3. historical interpretation
4. historical enquiry
5. organisation and communication

During key stage 2, pupils learn about significant people, events and places from both the recent and more distant past. They learn about change and continuity in their own area, in Britain and in other parts of the world. They look at history in a variety of ways, for example from political, economic, technological and scientific, social, religious, cultural or aesthetic perspectives.

They use different sources of information to help them investigate the past both in depth and in overview, using dates and historical vocabulary to describe events, people and developments. They also learn that the past can be represented and interpreted in different ways. In history, pupils acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding in five main areas:

What was it like for children in the Second World War?
In this unit children find out about the effects of the Second World War on children in their local area, nationally and internationally. There are also opportunities to consider the effects of war on children today.
Children use a range of sources, including the recollections of people alive at the time. They consider the reasons for and results of key aspects of the war.

Section 8: What it was like to be a child living in this area in World War II?
Recap, through question and answer, what the children have learned so far about the war's impact on people of the time.
Help the children to devise a list of questions they would ask someone who was a child in the area during the war, eg Where did you live? What did you eat? Did you experience bombing or evacuation? How much did you know about what was happening in the war? How did you find out?

Arrange for someone who was a child during the war to visit the class. Encourage the children to ask the questions on the list. Record the interview. Replay the tape and discuss with the children what they have learned about the history of their area during the war. Help them to identify on a map, local places mentioned by the visitor. Mark the map with a description of what happened there during the war years... ...Before the visit, a display could be set up showing what the children have learnt so far about the war. This could act as a stimulus for the interview, eg Does the visitor recognise or remember some of the things?

Britain since 1930
A study of the impact of the Second World War or social and technological changes that have taken place since 1930, on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society.