Empire Windrush To be able to explain why people chose to travel on the Empire Windrush

Empire Windrush Complete History Scheme of Work KS2/3

This is a complete 5-week scheme of work, based on the history of Windrush . Written for UpperKey Stage 2, but easily adapted Objectives covered: • To be able to locate and identify the Caribbean Islands. (Geography Skills) • To use historical methods to find out about history of African-Caribbean people in Britain before the 1940’s. • To know that Caribbean men and women served in the second World War. • To be able to explain why people chose to travel on the Empire Windrush • To know and understand the difficulties faced by the Windrush settlers when they arrived in Britain. Each lesson comes with all resources and an editable powerpoint. There is also a medium term plan for all 5 lessons.