The Big Idea

How has crime and punishment changed over time? Throughout the UK, the police force uses their knowledge and authority to keep our communities safe. We will be learning how the role of the police has changed throughout history and how this is reflected in the crimes and punishments which take place. We will focus on crime and punishment as an aspect of British history that has developed over time.  

- As studious historians, we will be able to compare and contrast crimes and punishments throughout different periods of history. We will learn to devise historically valid questions about change and the impact on this on modern living.  We will learn about crime and punishment in different historical periods (including Romans and Tudors) in chronological order and how these ideas have adapted throughout history and are now used in the modern day.  

- As a reflective thinker, I will use our knowledge of current affairs (gender, equality, racism) to debate and justify our opinions on historical crimes and punishment. I will learn about primary and secondary sources so that how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. We will consider our own opinions and use a variety of sources to justify thoughts and answers.

- As members of our local community, we will be visited by a local police officer. We will use our knowledge of British Values to ask questions about 21^st century crime and punishment. During this time, we can ask historically valid questions about change and significance to further our knowledge that we have previous learned.

Crime and Punishment

Our new creative curriculum ‘Crime and Punishment’ took a very mysterious and dangerous turn. Evidence collected from a crime scene on the top field of the school revealed a heinous criminal had struck earlier that day. A fiendish highwayman had struck at dawn, leaving certain clues to his existence and compelling evidence from an eye witness hurst at the scene.

Mr. Terence Wogan (the witness) reported ‘a mysterious dark figure with demon eyes, a black and claret cloak and a deadly rapier. Our class have been interrogating the evidence, the witness and our powers of deduction to uncover the mysterious and elusive Highwayman.