Year: 6 Topic: Is it right to fight? A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066. NC Objectives:
Links to Prior Learning Links to Future Learning • Chronology through all history topics • Locate using maps and atlas’ through all topics
Knowledge Key WW1 World War 2 (WWII) • To investigate the causes of World War 1 East End London Ø Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Blitz • Recruitment– ‘Your Country Needs You’ Air raid siren • Soldiers life was on the Western Front: - bomb Ø Life and death in the trenches Ø The ‘Christmas Eve Truce’ Air raid shelter • To explore the advancements of warfare that occurred during WWI. Battle Britain Ø Chemical warfare – mustard gas Blackout Ø Tanks, Zeppelin raids Conscription • Great battles of WW1 – The Somme, Ypres Prime minister • To explore the involvement of animals in WWI. evacuated Ø War horses, spotter dogs, pigeons evacuee • To explore what life was like for the people in Britain during WWI – the recycled Home Front, women in munition factories, Women’s Land army • The War at sea – sinking of the Lusitania, Battlecruisers, torpedoes slogans • The War in the air – the German ‘Red Baron’ food rationing • America joins the War with the Allies VE day • Military leaders – Lord Kitchener, Earl Haig 1914 -18 • Propaganda and its use in the War recruitment • To investigate the end of WWI and what happened afterwards. conscription trenches WW2 warfare & weaponry • To consolidate knowledge understanding of WW1 battlecruisers • Why and when World War 2 started Home Front • Key people in power in England at the time of World War II: Women’s Land Army Monarch, Prime Ministers munition factories • How Britain recruited troops to fight in WWII truce • What people did when bombs were dropped on London poppies • Why the East End was badly hit by bombs Lusitania • Different slogans that were posted and precautions taken e.g. Zeppelin blackout, air raid shelters, air raid sirens Lord Kitchener • What happened to children during WWII propaganda • How people managed for food during WWII and rationing • What buildings were damaged during WWII Allied and Central powers • How people celebrated the end of the war Lord Kitchener war poets Earl Haig Red Baron Armistice (Day)