History

Year Group

History Topic

• Time travellers – Dinosaurs, King and Queens
• What was I like when I was a baby- what could I do?
• Old and new toys
• Developing the vocabulary to talk about events and people in the past, distance past and present

• History of toys
• Victorian Toys – a child in Victorian times
• Victorian schools, Visit Chiltern Open Air Museum
• Victorian Day in School – Drama, Visual props, Victorian toys, Victorian dress
• Events beyond living memory- Guy Fawkes
• What did our village look like in the past?
• How has our village changed- How has it grown?Why?
• 1950s seaside holiday, holidays now and then, Punch and Judy, Magic Grandad 1950’s

• Events beyond living memory-
• Remembrance and the Great War
• Great Fire of London- linked to the Plague and life in London 1666,  Visit Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Aylesbury
• Evacuation- Drama, Rationing, - Evacuation day
• Significant people of South Africa’s history
• Captain Cook- lifwe on board ship and life as an explorer.
• Darwin and his exploration
• Significant people who have affected how we live today-Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

• The achievements of the Early civilisations – Egypt through farming, religion and architecture
• Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age through: farming, religion and technology
• Local history study - Human features of CSG how they have changes and why

• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
• Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
• Regal Royals

• A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history - The Maya
• The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
• The Space Race

• Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world
• A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 – Transport
• World War I and its impact on Britain and France