How was School Different in the Past?

Year 2

Unit Overview

Finding out that schools have been in the locality for a long time but they have not always been the same. Children look for similarities and differences and use a range of sources enabling them to recognise some continuity between their lives and the past.

Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

Were schools different in the past? - To find out how schools were different in the past.
How have schools changed within living memory? - To investigate what school was like in the past.
How were schools different in the 1900s? - To investigate what schools were like in the 1900s.
How have schools changed? - To compare a modern classroom with a classroom 100 years ago.
What is similar and different about schools now and in the past? - To compare three periods of time.
Would you have preferred to go to school in the past? - To express a personal response to history.

❇ SUBSTANTIVE CONCEPTS

Achievements and follies of mankind

❇ DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS

Change and continuity
Similarities and differences
Sources of evidence
Historical interpretations

❇ HISTORICAL VOCABULARY

past
timeline
date
different
decade
present
important
similar
modern
living memory
evidence
source
decade
beyond living memory
preferred

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

N/A

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

Compare a modern classroom with a classroom 100 years ago

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Victorian playground games

🏁 SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW

Using a photograph as a source, we will generate a series of questions we could ask about the picture.

📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)

You Wouldn't Want to be a Victorian School Child by John Malam

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