Beyond 1066
Pupils in Key Stage 2 are required to undertake a chronological unit of study that extends knowledge beyond 1066. The emphasis of this unit is to help pupils to develop their chronological understanding and should either take the form of an overview of a theme across time, or focus on a specific turning point that could be said to have resulted in change after 1066. While a popular choice for schools may be to retain a study of the Tudors, Victorians or Britain from 1930 in this option, links should be made to earlier units of study and the content focus of choice should not operate in a vacuum. In order to consider a particular event or period in time as a turning point, it will be important for pupils to understand what came before it as well as what came afterwards. For schools wishing to trace a theme across time, a big picture overview may be needed that can draw links both back and forth in time through the theme. Popular themes include medical knowledge, crime and punishment, monarchy and power, food, leisure to name but a few.
Chronology
- Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1
- Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Numbers Through Time
- Scheme of Work: Chronological Unit - Books Through Time
- ‘Come all ye fisher lassies’
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
- Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum
Big Picture History
- Recorded webinar: How has warfare changed over time?
- Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
- Siege coins of the English Civil War
- Pull-out Posters: Primary History 77
- Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions
- Making the most of the post-1066 unit
The Victorians
- How much has the weather mattered in British history?
- Earth heroes: Etta Lemon, ‘The Mother of Birds’
- Going to school: a post-1066 thematic study
- My favourite place: Lyme Regis, Dorset
- Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
- Teaching the British Empire in primary history
Britain since 1930
- A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods
- Earth heroes: Etta Lemon, ‘The Mother of Birds’
- Dig for sustainability!
- Exploring sustainability in the Early Years
- Trees
- Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
Crime and Punishment
- Female migration to Australia
- Teaching crime and punishment as a post-1066 theme
- Using the back cover image: painted wooden police truncheon
- Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern
- The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment
- Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods
Science & Industry
- Women and space: reaching for the stars
- Anniversary: Festival of Britain 1951
- Local significant individuals
- Scheme of work: George Stephenson and the development of railways
- One of my favourite history places: Meldon Viaduct
- The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2