KS1 & KS2 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of using historical photographs to learn about the past. It enriches the knowledge pupils have built about ideas such as rulers, ruling, government, empire and trade. This unit prepares pupils for their KS2 study of Victorian Britain's interaction with the kingdom of Benin. It also prepares them for many key stage 3 units in Year 8 and 9 which deepen and enrich their knowledge of industry and empire that is built in this unit.

1. Victoria's 'melancholy' childhood
2. Victoria's accession to the throne
3. Victoria's proposal and marriage to Albert
4. Victoria's children
5. Victorian society
6. Factories in Britain during Victorian times
7. The Great Exhibition
8. Victoria, Scotland and John Brown
9. Victorian childhood
10. Alice Kinloch and the Victorian British Empire
11. Victoria, Empress of India
12. Britain at the time of Victoria's death

• The use of photographs as historical sources from 'Photographs from history: what can they tell us about Britain's recent past?'
• Some of the ideas related to rulers and rulership introduced in 'Traditional stories: what do they tell us about the distant past?'
• Some of the ideas related to rulers, rulership, public life and duty introduced in 'Elizabeth II: what was her life like?'
• What Britain was like in living memory, as introduced in 'Elizabeth II: what was her life like?' and in 'Photographs from history: what can they tell us about Britain's recent past?'