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History at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 2)

Unit 17: What are we remembering on Remembrance Day?
Section 2: Who do we remember on Remembrance Day?

QCA

Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to use historical sources in the locality to find out information
  • how to record their findings so they can demonstrate to other people what they have learnt
  • to ask and answer relevant questions from the past

Activities

Outcomes
Children:

Arrange, if possible, a visit to a local war memorial. Encourage the children to describe accurately what they can see, eg lists of names, dates, symbols. Also prompt them to ask questions, eg Why are there lists of names? When might the memorial have been built? How could we find out? What do the symbols mean? Why did people want to build a war memorial? Are there war memorials in other towns/villages? Discuss with the children the sort of information war memorials can give us and the information they leave out. Help the children to record information in several ways, eg sketches/observational drawings of the war memorial, tallies of names.

  • know the location of the local war memorial and that it lists the names of soldiers killed in World War I and World War II
  • gather relevant information from a war memorial and communicate what they have learnt by writing and drawing

Points to note

It is helpful if teachers are aware before the visit if children might be able to trace members of their families on local memorials.

There may be an opportunity for a museum visit. Some schools may be able to involve families or other members of the community in sharing their personal experiences of events, or loaning memorabilia.

ICT could be used to help children communicate their findings, using art, word-processing or simple data-handling packages. This could be linked to mathematics (Ma2,5).

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1. Why are people wearing poppies this week?
2. Who do we remember on Remembrance Day?
3. Why do we have Remembrance Day?
4. What happens on Remembrance Day?
5. Why is it important to remember?