History - an introduction


Today in History, year 3 met their new teacher!  Our key question was: why do we study History? We had a brilliant discussion inspired by the famous quote, "the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future". We explored some examples of how beneficial it can be to learn from the past. Year 3 recalled learning from previous years about the Great Fire of London and discussed the impact that has had on how people plan and build more safely. 

We then began to discuss the sources that historians might use in order to learn about the past. We un-muddled a timeline of events to start to establish the chronology of our first topic - Stone Age Britain!

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