Black and British Resources and Lessons KS2
Explore Black and British at KS2
Explore two thousand years of Black British history, from the first Black people in Roman Britain to the transatlantic slave trade, the world wars, Windrush and changing experiences today.
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Black and British – planner
This long-term thematic study, designed for Y6 pupils, is an ideal way to round off KS2 as it not only consolidates pupils’ chronological grasp of the long arc of 2000…
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Black and British – assessment task
This assessment task is different from the others in the KS2 suite of tasks in that it comprises multiple questions rather than one single open-ended task, assessed by outcome. For…
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Black and British knowledge organiser – KS2
You are studying this topic in the hope that you will discover how Black British is an important part of British history. Looking back over 2000 years of British history…
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Black and British – KQ1 – How shall we tell the story of the first Black Britons in Britain?
Pupils watch a brief introductory video for just 70 seconds, the point at which the film stops short of identifying all the evidence for existence of Black people in Britain…
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Black and British – KQ2 – What part did Black people play in British life when they started to settle 500 years ago?
Focusing on four key documents, pupils have to work out what we can say about the role of Black people in Tudor society. They make inferences from visual evidence and…
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Black and British – KQ3 – What difference did the slave trade make to the experience of the Black people?
What difference did the transatlantic slave trade make to the lives of Black people, both beyond Britain and within it? This enquiry helps pupils explore this challenging question by connecting…
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Black and British – KQ4 – When so many Black people rushed to fight in the two world wars, why then is it only recently that their sacrifice has been properly recognised?
When so many Black people rushed to fight in the two world wars, why then is it only recently that their sacrifice has been properly recognised? The stories of Walter,…
Read MoreBlack and British – KQ5 – How did the arrival of the Empire Windrush change the way Black People were treated in Britain?
In this enquiry, pupils explore the experiences of the Windrush generation and consider how their arrival changed the story of Black people in Britain. They investigate why people came to…
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Black and British – KQ6 – How far has life improved for Black people living in Britain in the last 60 years?
This active session asks pupils to create a physical fortunes graph to show the effects that changes in the law and people’s reactions had on the lives of Black people…
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All content on Keystage history is written and quality assured by Neil Thompson, a former history teacher, county history adviser and Ofsted inspector with more than 30 years’ experience in history education.