Crime & Punishment
Your child can say how justice worked long ago. Guilt could be judged by a hard test or a fight, and people were locked in stocks. It seems unfair to us now.
In curriculum terms
How justice worked in medieval times: trial by ordeal, trial by combat, the role of the sheriff; punishments including stocks, pillory, and dungeons; how different it was from modern justice
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Could your child describe how criminals were caught and punished in medieval times and explain what seems unfair by today's standards?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).