Year 2 - History

Introduction

At Eastfield we aim for our children to develop passion and curiosity for finding out about the past. We use Collins Connected History scheme to ensure children receive a structured but ambitious curriculum. Vocabulary and talk play a central role within history teaching and learning so our pupils' can talk like historians.

How do we know so much about what happened in the Great Fire of London?

Introduction:

In this unit children will use a range of primary and secondary sources to describe and explain the causes and effects of the fire in 1666.

Keywords we used:

Extinguish Firebreak Reconstruct

Primary Evidence Secondary Evidence

Militias Inflammable

During our topic, we made connections with features of London in 1666 through watching videos, discussion, research and reading books about the famous event.

Writing

Once we had learnt about 'The Great Fire of London' in Spring 1, we then completed a diary entry unit through The Write Stuff writing lessons based on an eyewitness account of a rat in 17th century London.

We made predictions about what we thought might happen after the fire started.

Then we made comic strips highlighting the main events

Finally, we wrote independent explanations to explain why the Great Fire of London spread so quickly and took so long to extinguish

Why did Delia buy a new hat? (Titanic)

Introduction:

In this unit children explored why there were so many emigrants on the maiden voyage of theTitanic and what occurred during the last twenty four hours of its voyage.

Keywords we used:

period, poverty, immigrant, maiden voyage, commemorate, steerage, famine

At the start of our topic, we sorted out different types of hats and what hats tell us about the lives of people in 1912. We learnt that people who wore fancy hats were members of the aristocracy and life was very comfortable. They lived in very large houses and employed many domestic servants and enjoyed numerous social events such as garden parties, concerts and horse racing where they would wear their hats. For poor people life was hard and they often wore plain hats such as flat caps or simple bonnets

We discovered that Delia would probably have worn a hat like this for her voyage on the Titanic.

We investigated what happened to Delia and placed events in chronological order.

We rearranged images in what we thought was the correct order of events. Then

In pairs we told our partner the story of what happened to Delia and her friends.

We then wrote our own narrative of events about what happened to the Titanic on its maiden voyage. We were sad to discover that out of the 2240 people who embarked on the journey to New York, only 706 survived.

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