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The Great War: how did the Great War affect local people and their communities?

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  • Warfare and conflict

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In this unit, pupils learn about the Great War and how it is commemorated. By looking at several specific local studies, pupils gain knowledge of how this war affected local people and their communities. This unit can be adapted to suit pupils' local contexts.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge about late Victorian and Edwardian England that they developed in key stage 1. With this understanding of the period that immediately preceded it, pupils will be able to contextualise the impact of the Great War more easily. This unit prepares pupils for later year 6 units about the Second World War, as their understanding of conflict and its impacts will help to secure this new knowledge.

  1. The Great War
  2. Trench warfare on the Western Front
  3. Remembering those who gave their lives in WWI
  4. Captain Noel Chavasse
  5. The Home Front in WWI
  6. Local communities and the Great War

  • Pupils should understand that some events are memorialised.
  • Pupils should know that some events are considered more significant than others.
  • Pupils should understand that by 1914 much of Western Europe was industrialised or were industrialising.
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