History
The history curriculum enables children to develop their chronological understanding, their knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past, their historical interpretation, historical enquiry and their ability to organise and communicate historical information. Children will undertake a variety of historical studies including:
- a local history study
- changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
- the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
- Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
- the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
- a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066
- the achievements of the earliest civilizations
- Ancient Greece
- a study of a non-European society that provides a contrast with British history
Autumn term:
Year 1
What is History?
Year 2
The Great Fire of London
Year 3
Local History study and Transportation
Year 4
Anglo- Saxons
Year 5
Victorians
Year 6
Crime and Punishment
Autumn - Key knowledge for each unit:
Spring Term:
Year 1:
Kings and Queens
Year 2:
Explorers
Year 3:
Stone Age to Iron Age
Year 4:
Ancient Egyptians
Year 5:
Ancient Greeks
Year 6:
World War Two
Spring - Key knowledge for each unit:
Summer Term:
Year 1:
Events Beyond Living Memory
Year 2:
The Lives of Significant Individuals – Explorers Ibn Battuta and Scott of the Antarctic
Year 3:
Roman Empire
Year 4:
Tudor Britain
Year 5:
Maya Civilisation
Year 6:
Kingdom of Benin
Summer - Key knowledge for each unit:
