A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:
History Long Term Plan
2021 - 2022 | Autumn | Spring
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Year 1 | Toys from the Past
| The Titanic To know about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally/ globally.
| Kings and Queens To know about the lives of significant individuals in the past who contributed to national and international achievements.
To make comparisons with their own lives and those from before they were born. |
Year 2 | Pirates. Was Grace O’Malley a Pirate? To know about the lives of significant individuals in the past who contributed to national and international achievements.
| Great Fire of London To know about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally/ globally.
Year 2 make links to present day by comparing The Great Fire of London to Grenfell Tower | Local comparison to a non-European village Similarities and differences between ways of life in a village in Africa over different time periods to our locality. The Masai Mara
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Year 3 | Local History Study – child apprentice and Quarry Bank Mill Comparison between life as a child apprentice and rights Malala fought in recent years. (Builds prior knowledge for Year 5’s local Manchester study) | Stone age to Iron Age Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
| Ancient Egypt
Look at artifacts |
Year 4 | Romans The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.
| Anglo-Saxons Britain’s settlements by Anglo-Saxons and Scots.
Significant events and people
| South America
indigenous tribes of South America |
Year 5 | Vikings The Anglo-Saxon and Viking struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor.
| Empires Study of a non-European Society that provides contrast with British history.
(Draws on knowledge of Prehistory gained in Year 3 Stone Age Topic to support understanding and use of sources and reliability. Compare Stone Age in Britain and in Mesoamerica) | Local Study: Manchester How several aspects of national History are reflected in the locality |
Year 6 | World at War (Focused study on WW1) A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
| Enquiry: Changes in local History – Air pollution from Industrial Revolution to now | Ancient Greece The study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Able to use sources to support a conclusion |