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Victoria's Diaries

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Victorians Long live the Queen

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Objectives

History

  • Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
  • Study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066: the changing power of monarchs using case studies such as Victoria.
  • Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

English

  • Read and discuss a wide range of non-fiction and reference texts.
  • Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.

Lesson Planning

Use a variety of sources to learn about Victoria's life from different perspectives.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To investigate the use of diary extracts as a source for historical enquiry.
  • To examine diary extracts written by Queen Victoria and draw out interesting information.

Children will:

  • Investigate the use of diary extracts as a source for historical enquiry.
  • Read information about Queen Victoria and use this to create a game with instructions.

Provided Resources

  • Extracts from Victoria’s diaries.
  • Information sheet of ‘Quirky Facts’.

You Will Need

Non-fiction books about the Victorian era

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