Becoming a Historian at DCPS
Our aim is that children who leave our school in Year 6 will be able:
- To display a good chronological awareness of the past. They will know where certain civilizations and events fit within a timeline.
- To identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different time periods.
- To investigate the past using their understanding of source work including the concept of bias.
- To discuss the causes and consequences of progression throughout History in the areas studied.
- To apply disciplinary and substantive concepts when analysing the past.
- To understand a range of ways that humans have been able to accurately find out about the past.
- To use and understand the language and vocabulary of an historian.
- To present their learning in a range of ways including written and oral outcomes.
In addition to finding out about how people from different time periods and civilisations lived, our children will also learn about how historians have found out about life in the past through source work. They will learn to compare and contrast different time periods and suggest reasons for the similarities and differences