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Curriculum Relevance
Part of the breadth of study at Key Stage One requires children to be taught about the lives of significant men and women from the history of Britain and the wider world, past events and the way of life of people in the more distant past.
At Key Stage One children's knowledge and understanding of the past is developed by recognising why people did things, why events happened and what were some of the results of these events, and by identifying differences between ways of life at different times. This website is designed to give children access to a variety of time periods, to the wider world as well as Britain, to particular events these people are remembered for, and to differences in aspects of life between their time and now. The skills of enquiry can be developed as the site allows children to find out about the life of each person, about events associated with them, as well as life at the time and in the place where they lived. Each person has an interesting story to tell, and there are opportunities to develop chronological understanding through the use of language, the sequence of events and simple timelines. Other representations of the people selected - such as pictures, stories and video - are readily available, which will raise awareness that people and events can be represented in different ways. Children can be then asked to describe more than one representation [Level 2] allowing for extension to Level 3 for those children able to make comparisons between the different representations. Children can use the information from the site to recount a varying number of episodes from the life of a particular person. There are opportunities to extend children's thinking to consider how the life of a famous person and the event/s they are remembered for give us information about characteristic features of the time.
Print Curriculum Grid - England
Print Curriculum Grid - Scotland
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