Skills and concepts
Working as an historian
The child should be enabled to
Time and chronology
- Begin to distinguish between past, present and future
- Begin to develop an understanding of chronology through
exploring and recording simple sequences and by placing objects or pictures
in historical sequence
Change and continuity
- Explore instances of change and continuity in personal
life, in family and local history
Cause and effect
- Discuss the reasons which some events happened and
their consequences
Using evidence
- Examine a range of simple historical evidence –
photographs, objects, memories of older people, buildings, stories and songs
- Begin to distinguish between fictional accounts in
stories, myths and legends
Synthesis and communication
- Communicate an awareness of stories, people and events
from the past in a variety of ways – writing, drama, ICT
Empathy
- Imagine and discuss the feelings of characters in
stories from the past
Strand: Myself and my family
The child should be enabled to
- Explore and record significant personal dates and
events
- Collect, discuss and compare simple items of evidence
from own past
- Construct simple personal timeline or storyline
My Family
The child should be enabled to
- Explore and record significant features, events and
dates in the past of the child’s family or extended family
- Discuss and record significant family events
- Collect, explore and discuss a range of simple evidence
- Compile simple family tree, scrapbook or timeline
When my grandparents were young
The child should be enabled to
- Explore and record aspects of the lives of people when
their grandparents were young [Sources:
Swords Voices, volumes 1- 7, a collection of reminiscences]
- Collect and examine simple evidence in school
- Compare lives of people in the past with the lives of
people today
- Record material on appropriate timeline
Games in the past
The child should be enabled to
- Explore and record traditional non-formal games –
card games, street games
Feasts and festivals in the past
The child should be enabled to
- Explore and discuss the origins and traditions of some
common festivals
Change and continuity
The child should be enabled to
- Visit, explore and become aware of elements in the
local environment which show continuity and change – street scene now and
then – Swords in 1900, Swords in 1990, Swords in 2000
- Listen to and record memories of older people
Story
The child should be enabled to
- Listen to, discuss, retell and record some stories from
the lives of people who have made a contribution to local and / or national
life
- Become aware of the lives of people from different
social, cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds
- Listen to local people telling stories about the past
- Distinguish between fictional accounts in stories,
myths and legends
- Discuss chronology of events in a story
- Express or record stories through simple writing, art
work, music and using ICT
- Display storyline pictures showing episodes in
sequences
- Use appropriate timelines
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