Caring on the Home Front - Volunteer memories from World War Two
History teaching 7-11 yrs
Key Stage 2 and its equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
The following project packs are relevant:
Project Pack 1 – Time Detectives: War and Children
Project Pack 2 – Changing Roles
Project Pack 3 – Surviving the Blitz
These three project areas cover the following National Curriculum programmes of study and QCA schemes of work. There is a summary in each project pack.
Programmes of study
During key stage 2 pupils learn about significant people, events and places from both the recent and more distant past. They learn about change and continuity in their own area, in Britain and in other parts of the world. They look at history in a variety of ways, for example from political, economic, technological and scientific, social, religious, cultural or aesthetic perspectives. They use different sources of information to help them investigate the past both in depth and in overview, using dates and historical vocabulary to describe events, people and developments. They also learn that the past can be represented and interpreted in different ways.
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
Caring on the Home Front can help pupils:
- Learn about the characteristic features of the periods and societies studied, including the ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children in the past
Historical interpretation and enquiry
Caring on the Home Front can help pupils:
- Recognise that the past is represented and interpreted in different ways, and encourage them to give reasons for this
- Find out about the events, people and changes studied from an appropriate range of sources of information, including ICT-based sources
Organisation and communication
Caring on the Home Front encourages pupils to:
- Communicate their knowledge and understanding of history in a variety of ways
Breadth of study
Britain since 1930: A study of the impact of the Second World War or social and technological changes that have taken place since 1930, on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society.
Impact of the Second World War
- The Blitz and evacuation
- Rationing
- New technologies
- The Second World War in the local area
Impact of social and technological changes
- Introduction of the National Health Service
- Fairer working and living conditions for all
- New technologies
Schemes of Work
Unit 09: What was it like for children in the Second World War?
- Characteristic features of the Blitz
- Locating where bombing took place, including how the local area was affected
- Effects of air raids
- Causes of evacuation, and feelings of evacuees
- Impact of rationing
- How the war affected people’s everyday lives
- Restrictions on people, how they suffered during the war, their courage and resilience
- How to find out about the war in their locality from the recollections of someone who lived through it
- Learning about conflicts going on today and how they affect the lives of children
- Making connections between the Second World War and today.