Our History programme of study follows the guidlines set out by the National Curriculum. Within Key Stage One the programme of study for history is less prescribed, giving staff more flexability to choose topics and periods of history to excite and interest the children.

Taught through topic based planning the children learn about history through a key skills based approach that includes, researching, comparing and idenitfying. The children will discuss changes within living memory, events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, the Great Fire of London), the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Children should compare aspects of life in different periods significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

Throughout Years One and Two our children will:

• talk about their family history through looking at family trees and talking with grandprents about what life was like when they were young,
• identify objects from the past and their uses through topics such as pirates and the Great fire of London,
• look at the lives of significant people from the past such as pirates and kings and queens.
• reacll and sequence significant events through The Great Fire of London,
• compare the fire equipement from the Great Fire of London and todays fire fighting equipment,

Click here for further information about the history curriculum for KS1.