History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 5/6)
Unit 11: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?
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Section 1: Who were the Victorians and when did they live?
Children:
- can place the Victorian period on a class time line
- draw inferences about the lives of Queen Victoria's family from a portrait
- suggest what life was like for children living in the past
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Section 2: What was life like for a poor child in the 1840s?
Children:
- list a number of aspects of daily life for poor Victorian children
- produce a simple narrative to illustrate what they know about the work done by Victorian children
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Section 3: Who helped to improve the lives of Victorian children?
Children:
- answer questions about who helped to improve children's lives and how
- select appropriate information and present it, to show what they have found out about Lord Shaftesbury and Dr Barnardo
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Section 4: What was it like going to school at the end of the nineteenth century?
Children:
- identify distinctive features of a Victorian school
- produce a dialogue that contains appropriate historical detail
- suggest there are different interpretations of school and work
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Section 5: How did different Victorian children use their spare time?
Children:
- produce advertisements or posters that reflect Victorian attitudes and values
- suggest what Victorian children might have done in their spare time
- select relevant information about a toy/leisure pursuit
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Section 6: How did life change for children living in Victorian Britain?
Children:
- recall information about what children did in Victorian times
- present information showing knowledge and an appreciation of the Victorian period
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