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History at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5/6)

Unit 12: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?

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Outcomes

Section 1: Who lived here in 1841?
Children:
  • understand what a census return is and what can be learnt from it
  • extract data from a census return and record it in a graph

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Section 2: Who lived and worked here in 1891? What has changed since 1841 and why?
Children:
  • identify changes between the census of 1841 and that of 1891
  • speculate about possible reasons for change

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Section 3: How did the arrival and expansion of the railways affect our area?
Children:
  • speculate how people might have been affected by the railways
  • present ideas to the class in oral, visual or written form

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Section 4: What evidence of Victorian times remains in our area?
Children:
  • identify features of Victorian buildings
  • record features of Victorian buildings
  • identify changes in buildings and suggest reasons for the changes

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Section 5: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?
Children:
  • suggest the ways in which the locality changed in the Victorian period
  • summarise what they have found out about one way the local area has changed

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1. Who lived here in 1841?
2. Who lived and worked here in 1891? What has changed since 1841 and why?
3. How did the arrival and expansion of the railways affect our area?
4. What evidence of Victorian times remains in our area?
5. How did life change in our locality in Victorian times?