History Department

 

Curriculum overview


Reception 

• History from traditional tales/rhymes
• Changes: Old/New, Young/Old
• Myself: my life so far/timelines

 

Year 1 

• Time journey: Toys from the past
• Trips to the seaside in the past

 

Year 2 

• Famous people (e.g. Braille, Nightingale, Pepys, Fawkes)
• Remembrance Day
• Victorians: Rich and Poor
• School Life

 

Year 3 

• Tudor times: Rich and Poor
• Ancient Egypt: Learning from what has survived

 

Year 4 

• Celts and Romans
• Britain in the 1930s and World War 2

 

Year 5

• Victorians: Industrial Revolution (Farming to factories)

• Victorian Social issues (Education, housing and poverty)

 

• Castles: Development through the ages

 

Year 6

 

• Ancient Greece
• England 1337-1483: War, Plague and Revolt

 

Year 7 

START OF CE SYLLABUS
• Richard III and the Princes (Introduction to Evidence)
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Mary Tudor

 

Year 8 

• Elizabeth
• Gunpowder Plot
• Civil War
• Plague and Great Fire