Views from Students at
Hellesdon/Taverham Sixth Form Centre
It’s important to remember the sequence of events and
their relevance. Cause and consequence is important, you shouldn’t be
marked down for not reciting certain dates but marked down for insufficient
answers and data. Too many dates would be bombarding and learning would be
boring and parrot fashioned rather than stimulating and educational. How
can dates help us in our skills needed for the wider world?
Lisa Price Year 12 student
Dates are important as it is important to know roughly
when certain things happened, but dates should not be learnt religiously
off by heart. The skill to History is not memorising dates off by heart but
to understand the causes and consequences of events and to understand them.
Matthew Allison Year 12 Student
Dates are important but a balance is needed between
knowing them and the factual historical events that surround them.
Ben Moles Year 12 Student
I don’t think you need dates in some cases. As you need
to know more about the event which happened in detail rather than the
dates. It’s more important to know the consequences, problems and other
different aspects of the events rather than the dates. It would be very
boring if you just learnt dates all the time, pupils would lose interest.
Heidi Barham Year12 Student
Dates are important in History. They are needed to get
some sort of idea of the chronological order of related events. They should
certainly not be all History is about though. The reasons behind events and
the consequences of these events is just as important.
Chris Whitlam Year 12 Student
Dates are important, but to learn dates parrot-fashion
would be boring and unskilful. Other skills should be learned.
Terry Want Year 12 Student
History is well important. Dates are well important but
you need more skills for History.
Daniel Cox Year 12 Student
History is important for dates. But then causes and
consequences are important too. You need to know when things happened but
then you need to know the details more. What is the point of knowing a date
if you do not know what happened on that date.
Maria Tooley Year 12 Student.
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