Significance

The focus around this concept is on recognizing why a person of event is of importance. Children are encouraged to evaluate the relevance of the contribution of different individuals or how an event came to affect future generations. Children can apply a number of criteria to evaluate significance such as those of Partington (1980) who suggested they consider: Read more

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  • Cross Curricular Project on a famous person

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    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. If you are considering studying someone other than Florence Nightingale you have two basic options. You can either choose a local character who would be more relevant to the children, or you could study someone who...

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  • Addressing the issues of knowledge, skills and understanding

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    This section explores some of the key ideas and activities for time, causation, interpretations, enquiry and significance. There are also some ideas on how history can be linked with literacy.

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