Disciplinary Knowledge Progression Grid
EYFS
Chronological Understanding
Significance
Evidence
Similarity and Difference
Continuity and Change
Cause and Consequence
Interpretation
Sequencing, events, stories, pictures and periods over time to show how different times relate to each other and contribute to a coherent understanding of the past.
Understanding the importance assigned to aspects of the past
Information gathered from historical sources
Understanding that some things change and some things stay the same
Understanding a chain of events and developments
Understanding how and why interpretations of the past can differ.
To place events (pictures or text) in order
Recognise and describe a special object (to self)
Sort some objects or photographs into ‘old’ and ‘new’
Understanding the extent of similarity and difference between different sorts of people – and between people of the same group. To know similarities and difference between: * themselves and others * families * communities * traditions
Can talk about changes that have happened to themselves and/or others
Ask questions about why things happen and give explanations
To place numbers in order To use words that indicate the past To identify how, as people, they have changed. To identify artefacts/photographs that are from the past.
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What came before/next? How have you changed? To use words and phrases relevant to the past: old, new, a long time ago …
Recognise and describe a special time/event in own life or lives of those close to them.
What is the same? What is different?
Can you tell me why that is special? Can you tell me what happened?
Talk about who or what was important e.g. in a simple historical account
What has stayed the same? What is different?
Begin to identify different ways in which we can find out about the past
Start to understand that life was different for people in the
Can begin to identify: * old/new things in a picture
Focus on WHY historians construct different accounts of the past.
Begin to identify what made some things happen What happened? Why?
Begin to recognise that significant events happened because of a cause
Understand that people have different experiences Understand that people have different things Understand that people might like different things
Identify the different ways in which the past is represented