Scholes Junior and Infant School
History Vocabulary Progression
Reception
Year 1
Today, tomorrow, yesterday, old, new, older, younger, days of the week, months of the year, past, Same, different, stories, festivals, important, remember, event, experience, similar, Draw, talk, show, remember, stories
Before, after, in the past, in the future, significant event, history, order, a long time ago, when I was younger, the past, since/ before I was born, famous, family tree, timeline. Similarities, differences, describe, artefacts, lives, affects, celebrate, event(s), queen king rule, years, difference object, artefact, picture photograph, explain, used for, fact, fiction, significant sources, retell , recall, historical words, write, remember
Year 2
Year 3
Earliest, latest, past, present, century, new, newest, oldest, modern, present, sequence, chronological order, lifetime, significant figure, artefacts, evidence, represent, sources, reasons, influenced, local area, historical event, when grandparents were young, Britain, parliament, older, person, source, research, clues, detective, fact, fiction, similar, different, views, effect, significant, explain, write, present, evidence, recall, remember
AD, BC era, century, decade, time period, civilisation, parliament, peasantry, monarch, settlement, invader, significant, reasons, evidence, kingdom, empire, archaeologist, historian, influenced, settlers, settlement, invaders/invasion, conquer(ed), combat, excavate Identify sources, represent views, evidence, effect, account interpreted, historical argument, opinion, fact, debate, historical vocabulary, organise
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Parallel, earlier, later, accurate, century, civilisation, migration, invader, significant, evidence, views, interpretations, influenced, modern, achievements, accounts, evidence, evaluate, interpreted, accurate picture of the past, version, historical argument, point of view, opinion, fact, communicate, debate historical vocabulary, organise, connections, research.
Millennium, cause, effect, legacy, trends, impact, accounts, compare, contrast, accuracy, reliable, relevant, rich, primary, secondary, propaganda, emotive, comparison, role of Britain, hypothesis, reputation, present, evidence, debate, research, organize, connections, enquiry.
Beliefs, connections, views, reliable, relevant, accuracy, valid, conclusion, interpreted, persuade, propaganda, reputation, suggests, to weigh up both sides, on one hand, could have been... might have been… may be… traditional view, attitudes, this source suggests that.. the source omits to mention… biased, one sided, summarise, discuss, structured clearly, appropriate, audience, enquiry, major initiative, influence, changes, continuity present, debate, audience
Topic Specific Vocabulary
Reception Technology, electricity, invented,
Scholes Now and Then:
Past, present, future, time, timeline, order, chronological order, change,
Great Fire of London:
Year 1
Year 2
Fire, flammable, evidence, conflict, thatched roof, extinguished, cathedral, homeless, diary, monarch, chronological order, date, bakery, compensation, capital city.
Mary Anning:
Significant, fossil, curiosities, scientist, paleontologist, chisel, famous, significant, Dinosaur, Archaeologist, Facts, Myths, Bones, Victorians, poor, museum, evolve.
Scholes Now and Then:
Viking settlement, Scali, Old Norse, locality, event, cottage, weaver, Weaver Cottages, handlooms, spinning Jennies, era, Victorian era, industrial revolution, Woollen Mills, dangerous job, river valleys, machinery, replaceable, poorer families, rich, poor shillings, Queen Victoria, significant, nationally, living memory, beyond living memory, Hepworth Feast, celebration, plague, infectious disease, rats, fleas
Titanic:
Significant, event, nationally, globally, living memory, beyond living memory, passenger, voyage, water tight, iceberg, Titanic, Atlantic, New York, luxury, first cla ss, third class, second class, stow away, America, deck, gate, life boats, boat deck, life jackets, crew, unsinkable, ship, Northern Ireland, transport, survivors, Southampton, White Star Line
Stone Age to Iron Age:
Year 3
Year 4
Pre-history, pre-historic, archaeology, archaeologist, stone, iron, bronze, ceremony, monument, Skara Brae, Beaker folk, ores, pottery, metal, peaceful, chief, hierarchy, after life, long barrow, round barrow, loom, weave, round house, thatched, tribe, possessions, conflict, rival, black smith, skilled, invasion, warrior, armour, god, chariot, invention, hill fort, defence, ramparts,
Romans:
Celts , citizen , conquest , emperor, empire, legion, rebellion, Roman Empire, tribe, numeral, gladiator, Hadrian’s Wall, gladius, testudo
Ancient Egyptians:
Ancient, Egypt, Egyptian, pyramid, Sphinx, pharaoh, Giza, great, Pyramid, obelisk, mummy, papyrus, sarcophagus, scarab, temple, tomb, Red Sea, Nile River, Sahara Desert, silt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, hieroglyph, linen, Mediterranean Sea, oasis, archaeologist, artefact, Cairo, Cleopatra, Ramses the Great, Tutankhamun Anglo Saxons and Scots:
Picts, Scots, Anglo-Saxons, Caledonia, Jutes, kingdom, Sutton Hoo, hierarchy, wattle and daube, settlement, religion, Christianity, monastery,
Year 5 Vikings
Raid Longboat Raid Invade Settle Loot Artefact Archaeology Archaeologist Coalition Mythology Norse Heathen Scandinavia Norway Sweden Denmark Wessex Danelaw Anglo-Saxons Period Chronology
Ancient Greece:
Ancient, primary source, secondary source, artefact, archaeologist, colony, civilisation, period, mythology, citizens, empire, despot, conquest, legacy, democracy, Year 6
Conflict:
Alliances, armistice, Allied and Associated Powers, artillery, assassination, Central Powers, colony, conscription, dominions, empire, home front, imperialism, Kaiser, nationalism, propaganda, rationing, Treaty of Versailles
River Holme, 19th/20th Century eyewitnesses, primary sources, secondary sources, settlement commemoration, embankment, textile industry, water wheel, weavers’ cottages, flash flood, high water, mark, chronology, reservoir
Maafa:
Indigenous, kingdom, civilisation, slave, slave trade, chattel slavery, Christopher Columbus, voyage, Maafa, holocaust, transatlantic, slaughter, triangular slave trade, enslavement, middle passage, plantations, trading fort, auction, First Maroon War, abolition, emancipated/ emancipation, colony, freedom, Key Stage 3 Medieval, 20th Century, succession crisis