What’s happening – Week 4

This week in history, the children in Year 6 used secondary sources of information to find about how life changed for different social groups living in Germany at the time of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In pairs, the children filtered through the information, picking out the facts that they considered to be the most important and then sorted these into two categories: positive effects and negative effects.

The children found that whilst most social groups were detrimentally affected, there were some positive outcomes like the creation of thousands of new jobs and access to a skills-based education system. To draw their lesson to a close, the children used their ABC cards to take part in a class debate – they raised arguments regarding which of the social groups were most affected and used the evidence from sources to support their views. Scan the QR codes below to listen to some of the children’s viewpoints: