Our Year 6 history curriculum provides a platform to enrich children’s awareness of the past and develop their historical consciousness. Our curriculum builds on pupils’ understanding of British, world and local history, looking at the influence that Britain had on the wider world, and how the wider world has influenced Britain.

The latest History topic for Year 6 is ‘Crime and Punishment ‘.

For the first lesson the children were given the task of arranging historical events in chronological order.

Chronology is the science of locating historical events in time. It relies upon chronometry, which is also known as timekeeping, and historiography, which examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods.

 

Looking for the evidence…

 

Logical thinking…

 

Historians heads on…

Searching  for clues…

Making decisions….

Why are timelines important ?

 A timeline is a visual learning aid that helps children organize a series of events in the order they happened. Each event or person should have a date (or time) clearly marked on the timeline. Timelines provide a framework to show potential relationships between historical events.