KS1 & KS2 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of war and conflict that they began to develop in the earlier unit on the impact of the Great War on local communities. Pupils' understanding of the scale of the conflict involved in this unit is more easily contextualised and understood having studied this. This unit prepares pupils for the next unit about the ways in which Britain changed after the Second World War, giving them the requisite knowledge to contextualise the events that came after it.

1. The outbreak of the Second World War
2. Women in the armed forces
3. A global war fought by an imperial army
4. Bombing and evacuation
5. The experiences of nurses during the Second World War
6. How experiences differed during the Second World War

• An awareness of the Second World War from 'Elizabeth II: what was her life like?'
• An understanding of how photographs are used as historical evidence, as introduced in, ' Photographs from history: what can they tell us about Britain's recent past?'
• An understanding of the British Empire and Commonwealth, as introduced in units like 'Elizabeth II: what was her life like?''