Dartford Primary School

How We Organise Ourselves Central Idea: Imagination helps us to think, create and use

materials.

Key Concepts: Change, Causation, Connection

Year Group:

2

Term:

3

Subject Focus: History

During this unit of inquiry, we will study the life and impact of significant individuals with a particular focus on

Florence Nightingale. We will use our historical enquiry skills to investigate who Florence was, what she did

and the impact she had on nursing and hospitals. We will then look at how her actions in the past still impact

and affect our lives today.

Hook into learning:

During our provocation, we investigated a range of

medical and nursing paraphernalia. We were

encouraged to ask questions and make links

between objects. We then looked at a range of

images of Florence Nightingale and nursing.

Opportunities for Home Learning

Research the life of Florence Nightingale and another

significant nurse (e.g. Mary Seacole)

Ask family members of different ages how hospitals and

nursing have changed over time.

Transferrable skills that will be developed in this unit:

We will develop our research skills.

We will practice our historical enquiry skills of reading

and using timelines, investigating different sources and

questioning witness accounts.

Key Vocabulary:

Florence Nightingale, nurse, hospital, charity, soldier,

poorly, sick, cleaning, infection, disease, medicine,

wounded, treatments, past, present, timeline, change,

then and now.

Outcome:

We will write a letter to local nurses explaining what

we have learnt and how we appreciate what they do

for us.

Links to PSCHE / SMSC:

Caring for our community and our society.

Understanding changes to societal institutions such

as nursing, hospitals and the NHS.

How does this unit reflect learning for a lifetime?

We will understand and appreciate the impact a significant

person can have on our lives today. We will begin to learn that

anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference to people’s

lives. We will recognise that people who help us, such as

nurses, are real life heroes.

Sharing Success:

Principal’s Certificate

Inquiry Journal books

Walk In Wednesdays

ClassDojo

Milestones covered in this topic

I can find and retrieve information.

I can answer questions using a specific source.

I can recount the life of someone famous from Britain.

I can explain what a significant person did earlier and what they

did later.

I can use the phrases ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘then’, and

‘now’.

I can sequence events from the life of a significant person in

chronological order.

I can give examples of how life is different from that of my grand-

parents when they were young.

I can explain why someone in the past acted in the way they did.

I can join things together in different ways.

I can use charcoal.

I can make different kinds of shapes to use in a 3D model.