The Southfield Historian Trips:
Enrichment experiences:
Butser Farm Hampton Court Palace Imperial War Museum National Army Museum Gunnersbury Victorian Museum Portrait Gallery
History Day Year 1 – 6 History Exhibition of work Year 1 – 6 Famous People Throughout History Workshops Class Assemblies
Skills: Chronological Understanding; • to know where a period of history fits on a timeline • to place a specific event on a timeline by decade • to place features of historical events and people from past societies and periods in a chronological framework
Knowledge and Interpretation • to summarise the main events from a specific period in history, explaining the order in which key events happened • to summarise what Britain may have learnt from other countries and civilizations through time gone by and more recently • to describe features of historical events and people from past societies and periods they have studied. • to recognise and describe differences and similarities/ changes and continuity between different periods of history to understand the impact of historical events on society Historical enquiry • to look at two different versions and say how the author may be attempting to persuade or give a specific viewpoint Children to ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge of a period in history • to identify and explain their understanding of propaganda to describe a key event from Britain’s past using a range of evidence from different sources
Knowledge: British History (taught chronologically) Significant turning points in British history King John I and The Magna Carta The Roman Invasion The Viking and Norman Invasion The War of The Roses The English Civil War The Industrial Revolution Suffragette Movement World War I World War II A Local Study.
Reception study how school life could be improved
Local Powerful Voices study – David Attenborough
Broader History Study Non-European society - Baghdad 900 CE
Vocabulary Reception:
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Year 6:
Legend, St George, dragon, brave, true Queens Guard, protect, ceremony, uniform, bearskin hat, march Ancient, Greek, myth, explain, Prometheus, Gods, fire, humans, earth, punish. Ancient Greece/Greeks, Gods, Heroes Fable, Aesop Queen, Commonwealth, United Kingdom, crown, throne, Union Jack, Royal Standard, flag Throne, crown, family tree, cypher Buckingham Palace, Palace, castle, Royal Standard, Architect, design. Queens Guard, protect, ceremony, uniform, bearskin hat, march. Coronation, orb, sceptre, ceremony, oath Westminster Abbey, sovereign,
Past Present History Historian Family Tree Related Relation Relationship Parent Grandparent Greatgrandparent Source Information Past Historian Archaeologist Artefact Transport London Underground Horse Cart Carriage Steam train King Queen Rule majesty royalty reign inherited crown coronation throne sceptre orb ring bow prison trial tax power rule King John Barons Magna Carta Parliament Representatives Power Tax Civil war Baron Battle of Lewes Simon de Montfort King Henry III civil war taxes parliament
ancient empire Roman Roman Empire Rome Italy Civilisation Technology Army Legion Soldier Centurion Service Helmet Shield Armour Conquered invasion Emperor Tribes Defeat Emperor Rebellion Iceni Roads Cities Towns York (Eboracum) London (Londinium) Forum Basilica Public baths Trade Hadrian’s Wall Connect Canals Aqueducts Sewage Villa Records History Influence Tudor Rich Poor Peasants Ornate Diet Life expectancy King Queen Jousting Lute Harpsichord Archery Heir Marriage Divorce Executed Source heir reformation divorce break with Rome Catholic Protestant Pope dissolution of the monasteries treason Protestant Catholic Book of Common Prayer succession convert burnt at the stake executed martyr
Archaeologist Migration Artefacts Prehistory Palaeolithic Mesolithic Stone Age Ice Age Huntergatherer Nomad Auroch Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Hunter-gatherer Migration Pottery Trade Wheat Barley Cattle Crop Long barrow Tomb Stone circles Farm Causewayed enclosure Migration Bronze Trade Copper Gold Beaker Barrows Hill-forts Pottery Excavation Wattles Timber Thatch Turf Stonehenge Henge Ditch Sarsens Bluestone Antler Horseshoe Trilithon Midsummers Day Midwinters Day Hill forts tribes Quern stone Fort Plough Loom Celt Wattle and daube druids Africa Egypt continent country River Nile Flood silt fertile farming Pyramid Pharaoh Vizier Slave Society Hierarchy Polytheistic Book of the dead God Goddess Papyrus Afterlife Tomb Pyramid Mummification Embalming Archaeologists statues tomb pyramids mummy pharaoh Afterlife Valley of the Kings papyrus hieroglyphics hieroglyphs
civilization city-states Athens Sparta Tyrant Democracy Vote Ostraca (single) Ostracon (plural) Sparta Spartans Warrior Discipline Persia Spartan Athenian Allies Enemy Conquered Civilization Empire Conquer Slavery Empire Gordian Knot Ruthless Philosophy Philosopher Wisdom Student Polytheistic Mount Olympus Zeus Hera Poseidon Hades Titans Prometheus Fate Myth Mythology Explain Moral Hero Centaur Cyclops Sphinx King Midas Arachne the Weaver Theseus Minotaur Parthenon Architecture Athens Acropolis Elgin Marbles Possession Olympic Olympia Zeus Compete Legacy Influence Democracy Language Theatre Sports Arts Science Mathematics Medicine Empire Rome Romulus Remus Mediterranean century Consul Senate Senator Patrician Plebeian slave republic Pompeii volcano Vesuvius pyroclastic flow ash casts forum
Islam Empire Mecca Medina Alhambra Palace Cordoba Mosque Philosophy Caliph Caliphate Tigris River trade route fertile City of Peace Dynast location Mosque Palace government accommodation avenue concentric medicine philosophy law translation House of Wisdom scholar trade Mongols Asia Abbasid Caliphate depopulate uninhabitable irrigation Empire Imperial Trade Britain British Monarch Chronology Timeline Colonies Merchants Trade Merchandise Global Conquered Colony Imperial Trade Wealth Globalisation East India Company Colony Colonisation Merchant Mughal Empire Artillery Treat Patriotism Seven Years War Rule Britannia Victory Invade War Colony Empire Imperial Trade Merchants Global Conquered Colony East India Company Mughal Empire Nawab Artillery Patriotism Seven Years War Rule Britannia clergy nobles peasant Absolute
Allies Alliance War Imperialism Empire Triple Alliance Triple Entente Politics Assassination Invade War Mechanized warfare Chemical warfare Mustard gas Chlorine gas Technology Navy Army Tank Trenches No man’s land Entrenching Sapping Tunnelling Trench fever Trench foot Frostbite Battle of the Somme Home Front Propaganda Conscription Enlist Battlecruisers Zeppelins Rationing British Summer Time Allies Ceasefire Armistice Treaty of Versailles Democratic Vote Shell shock Territorial Military Financial Economic Democracy Vote Wealthy Electorate Suffrage Politics Government Parliament Suffrage Committee Democracy Electorate Vote Campaign Petition Suffragist Campaign Deeds Radical Hunger strike Arson Marches Protests Antisuffrage Opposition Empire Nation Equality War Home Front Campaign Democracy Suffrage Feminist Working-class Gender pay gap armistice Treaty of Versailles League of Nations outlaw reparation Adolf Hitler Nazi Party Nationalism Intimidate Hitler Youth League of German Maidens Aryan Race Subhuman Kristallnacht Synagogue concentration camp
ceremony, map, aerial view, King John, army, ships, tax, prison, promise, Magna Carta, tyrant. King John, Magna Carta, Runnymede, rules, promises. Prime Minister, government, Houses of Parliament, vote, decisions
executed republic Charles I Capture Oliver Cromwell commonwealth Republic Puritan Charles II Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector laws Government Parliament Bill of Rights Parliament budget Houses of Parliament Prime Minister King George I Robert Walpole Germany 10 Downing Street Prime Minister Government Parliament vote election Vote polling station party ballot box
heretics heresy Compromise Elizabethan Religious Settlement Tudor dynasty Symbol Primary source Portrait Reign Golden Age Colony Theatre Empire British Empire Rule Colony Peace Independence Protest Peaceful protest Boycott Civil Rights Equality Segregation Activist Education Campaign Right Taliban Nobel Peace Prize Environment Climate Change Strike Asperger’s Syndrome Disability Environment Earth Broadcaster Documentary Climate Change Natural historian Naturalist Humanity Television
scribe language translate AngloSaxon, kingdom, ruler crops Mercia Wessex, Northumbria invade migrate Dark Ages Pict Invade Scotti Scots Hadrian’s Wall Dál Riata Pictland Migrate Farm Settlement Slave Famine Crop Hunt Stonemason Carpenter Glassmaker Feasting Christianity Convert Pagan Monk Pope Craft workers Monasteries Vikings Scandinavia long ships trade Migrate Invade raid exploration Raids, invasion attack Conquer valuable burial site carving Danegeld Danelaw law crops farming wattle daub thatched roof pit weaving firewood retreat defeat marshland oath Pagan Odin Thor Loki Freja King Canute empire tide power Edward the Confessor confession defeat victorious victory knight chainmail lance mace Reformer rule of law judge jury trial by ordeal Assizes Royal Justices Jury of Presentment Common Law Baron Excommunicated Crusade Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket Canterbury cathedral Saint Pope Turbulent Saint Holy War Crusade Holy Land
gladiator amphitheatre theatre chariot race circus Circus Maximus Colosseum Latin Romance language Rome Carthage Punic War Hannibal navy conquer Julius Caesar Gaul Civil War Pompey Rubicon Consul Julius Caesar Rubicon consul assassinate Brutus and Cassius Ides of March dictator Mark Anthony Octavian Caesar Augustus alliance Pax Roman Christianity sect Judaism Judea persecution polytheistic tribe Visigoth barbarian bodyguard auction sacked Heir Inherit Crown Union Union Jack Kingdom Tax Monarchy Divine Right of Kings’ Primary source Plot Treason Gunpowder Catholic Protestant Conspirators Cellars Trial Execution Radicalised civil war tax Parliament Puritan Catholic Protestant Power rebellion tyranny ‘Divine Right of King’ Noble Gentry Civil war Grand Remonstrance Parliamentarians Roundheads Royalists Cavalier Treason Gentry
Monarch revolution inequality society estates taxation colonisation Absolut monarch debt guillotine revolution royalists revolutionaries nobility consul emperor battles military gentry commander pre-emptive strike navy battle invade Trafalgar Nelson Napoleon exiled allied Elba St Helena Battle of Waterloo Transatlantic Enslaved African slavery plantation barracoon Atlantic passage trade goods Atlantic passage Middle passage slave ship West Africa America mutiny resistance log book source auction branding plantation resistance whipping punishment collar revolt resistance boycott petition Abolitionists British Empire economic profit boycott petition Abolitionists Quaker activist Industrial Revolution Society industrialisation factory engine machine mechanise mass produce urbanisation migrate water frame mill textile mass produce cotton spinning ‘cottage industry’ ‘pre-industrial’ Invention Steam engine steam engine piston rotary-
assassination refuge refugee Blitzkrieg invade territory coalition invasion Blitz conquer Allied Powers Axis Powers Operation ‘sealion’ Red Army Nazi nation Royal Airforce (RAF) Luftwaffe Spitfire Hurricane Messerschmitt Junkers Heinkel codebreaking cryptology cipher intelligence enigma Colossus bombes intercept decode Ghetto Concentration camp Extermination Camp Death March Genocide Air raid shelter Blackout Evacuation Rationed Civilians Air raid siren Land Army Home Guard Propaganda Campaign Superpower Capitalist Communist Domino theory Expansionism Containment Atomic Bomb Arms Race Space Race Ideologies Democracy Dictatorship Mutually Assured Destruction’ ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) Hydrogen Bomb Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapon SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) Manhattan Project Stockpile Monopoly Bay of Pigs Missile Blockade Communist Submarine Negotiation Cosmonaut Astronaut Satellites Orbit Earth Space Moon Sputnik 1 Apollo 11 Nuclear weapon Proxy war Communism Capitalism Expansionism Containment Liberty Human right United Nation Legal Law Trial Discrimination European
Religion Sacred Jerusalem Richard the Lionheart knight baron tyrant Magna Carta King John Sea Parliament elect Battle of Lewes Barons Civil War House of York House of Lancaster Plantagenet Redemption exile pious War Lancaster York (Yorkist) Tower of London Heir Usurper Coronation Legitimate Crime Innocent Guilty Battle of Bosworth Field archaeologist Yorkist Lancastrian Army Battle Tudor Rose Union House of York House of Lancaster
Puritan New Model Army Cause Consequence Lord Protector Commonwealth Puritan Protestant New Model Army Military Dictatorship Calvary Restoration Crown Parliament Civil War Puritan Exile Illegitimate Patron Habeas Corpus Plague Bubonic plague Plague doctor Black Death Cart Symptom Cure Epidemic Fumigate Fire hook Firebreak Pudding Lane Architect St Paul’s Cathedral Boulevards Insurance Fire brigade Policy holders Reign Rebellion Illegitimate Overthrow Glorious Revolution Abdicated
motion locomotive steam train blast furnace smelting coalfield coalmine mining Cotton mill Coal mine Scavenger Apprentices Reign Monarchy Empire Imperialism Patron Royalty Balmoral Great Exhibition Parliament Coronation Diamond Jubilee Urbanisation Industrialisation ‘factory system’ Slum back-tobacks cholera workhouse unemployment Poor Law Regimented Poor Government Wealthy Leisure Great Exhibition Crystal Palace Inventions Motor car Education Parliament Compulsory
Convention Discrimination Rights Equal pay Equality Pay Gap Suffragettes Gender/ sex Feminism/ feminist Human rights Childhood Child Poverty Refugee UN Treaty Ethnicity BAME Windrush The Civil Rights Movement Colonisation British Empire Slavery Discrimination Racism Boycott Persecution Heretical Discrimination Catholic Protestant Religion Faith Belief
Story Based Curriculum Reception: St George and the Dragon King Midas and the Golden Touch Myths and Legends
Year 1: Stone Age Boy Great Leaders
Year 2: Meet the Ancient Romans British History: The Tudors
Year 3: Stone Age Boy Selection of Norse Myths The Magna Carta Chronicle The Princes in the Tower – Unsolved Mystery (big cat)
Year 4: Athena – Story of Goddess Escape from Pompeii The lost diary of Julius Caesar’s Tudors and Stuarts
Year 5: The Golden Age of Baghdad Stowaway! Perspectives on History: Marie Antoinette Olaudah Equiano: From Slavery to Freedom Oliver Twist Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde
Year 6: WW1 – Poems from the War Suffragettes – The Diary of a Suffragette WW2 – The Blitz
Enrichment experiences Reception: Kings and Queens workshop
Year 1: History Day – Kings and Queens Queen Elizabeth II workshop History Exhibition
Year 2: History Day – The Romans Hampton Court – Tudors History Exhibition
Year 3: History Day – The Egyptians Butser Farm – Anglo Saxons History Exhibition
Year 4: History Day – The Greeks Buster Farm - Romans History Exhibition
Year 5: History Day – The French Revolution Victorian Museum Gunnersbury History Exhibition
Year 6: History Day – The Suffragettes Portrait Gallery – Suffragettes Imperial War Museum National Army Museum Alan Turing workshop History Exhibition
Knowledge Reception: Year 1: Early Learning Discovering History Goals: What is the Past? Stories from the Family Trees past To know that we can How do we know about history? learn things from What do stories from the archaeologists do? past. Our Local History To know that by retelling stories, Kings, Queens and they can change Leaders over time. Kings and Queens To understand that King John I and the stories can help to Magna Carta explain things. Henry III and To know the Ancient Parliament Greeks told stories a Charles I long time ago. Oliver Cromwell and To know that the Commonwealth animals are often
Year 2: Romans in Britain The Roman Empire Roman armies and soldiers The invasion of Britain and Boudicca Roman towns Roman legacy on The Tudors Life in Tudor England Henry VIII The English Reformation Edward VI and Mary I Elizabeth I Powerful Voices Gandhi Rosa Parks and
Year 3: Stone Age to the Iron Age Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers Life in Neolithic Britain The Bronze Age Stonehenge The Iron Age Ancient Egypt Locating Egypt and the River Nile Life in Ancient Egypt Religion and the Afterlife Tutankhamun and Howard Carter Hieroglyphics The Anglo Saxons,
Year 4: Ancient Greece Ancient Greece: City States Athens and Democracy Sparta The Persian Wars Alexander the Great Greek Philosophy Gods Mythology Art and Architecture The Ancient Olympic Games The Legacy of Ancient Greece Life in Ancient Rome Locating Ancient Rome Monarchy, Republic, Empire:
Year 5: Baghdad c.900 CE The Rise of Islam Baghdad: A City of Peace Baghdad: Building a City Baghdad: A Centre for Learning in the Islamic Golden Age The Mongol Attack on Baghdad and the Regional Powers The Early British Empire The British Empire Global Trade The Mughal Empire and East India Company The Seven Years War What motivated Britain to want an Empire?
Year 6: World War I The Causes of World War I On land, at sea and in the air Life on the Western Front The Home Front The Consequences of the War The Suffragettes Democracy in the 19th Century The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies Emmeline Pankhurst and the WSPU The Anti-Suffrage Campaign World War I and the
important in stories. Kings and Queens In England we have a Queen. The crown of England is passed down through the Royal Family A palace is a special building where a King or Queen lives The Queen’s Guard protects The Queen. Kings and Queens have a coronation ceremony Royal Coronations happen at Westminster Abbey To know that King John made some promises in the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta contains important rules and promises To know that our government makes choices for our country. To think about how we could improve our school or local area
Parliament and Prime Ministers James II, Mary II and William of Orange Simon de Montfort and parliament Robert Walpole Our Prime Minister today Elections
Martin Luther King Malala Yousafzai Greta Thunberg Local: David Attenborough
Scots and the Vikings Anglo Saxon England
Rome’s different Governments The Scots and the Picts Pompeii A Day in the Life in Anglo Saxon Ancient Rome Settlements Anglo Latin Saxon Culture and The Rise and Fall of Religion Who were the Vikings? Rome The Punic Wars and the Viking Raids and expanding empire Invasion Julius Caesar Alfred the Great Viking settlements and Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana Danelaw Christianity in the Viking Religion and Roman Empire Culture The Fall of the Edward the Confessor Roman Empire The Norman Invasion The Stuarts James I and the Union of the Crown The Gunpowder Plot Charles I The English Civil War Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth The Restoration of Charles II The Great Plague of 1665 The Great Fire The War of the Roses An Introduction to the of London Christopher Wren War of the Roses Henry VI vs. Edward IV and the Rebuilding of London .James II and Richard III and the the Monmouth Princes in the Tower The Battle of Bosworth Rebellion William of Orange and the Bill Field of Rights Henry VII and the Tudors Law and Power (11541272) Henry II and English Common Law Henry II and Thomas Beckett The Holy Wars and Richard the Lionheart King John and the Magna Carta Simon de Montfort
The French Revolution Life in France before the Revolution Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Napoleon Battle of Trafalgar Battle of Waterloo The Transatlantic Slave Trade The Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Atlantic Passage Enslaved Africans: Treatment and Resistance The Abolition of Slavery The Abolitionists: Clarkson, Wilberforce and Equiano The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution Cotton Production Steam Engines and Trains Iron and Coal Children at Work The Victorian Age The Reign of Queen Victoria and the British Empire Victorian Cities The Poor Law and the Workhouse Leisure Life by 1900
Representation of the People Act The Rise of Hitler and World War II The Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles The Rise of the Nazi Party Life in Nazi Germany Kristallnacht and the Refugee Crisis The Second World War World War II and the Holocaust World War Two The Battle of Britain and the Blitz The Codebreakers at Bletchley Park The Holocaust The Home Front The Cold War The Cold War The Arms Race The Cuban Missile Crisis The Space Race Proxy Wars The History of Human Rights Human Rights Women’s Rights Children’s Rights Racial Equality Freedom of Belief and Religion
Skills Reception: Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar tothem Talks about significant events in their own experience Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends
Year 1: Chronological Understanding put up to three objects in chronological order (recenthistory) use words and phrases like:old, new and a long time ago
Year 2: Chronological Understanding
Year 3: Chronological Understanding
use words and phrases like: before I was born, whenI was younger
to describe events and periods using the words: BC, AD and decade
use phrases and words like: ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘then’ and ‘now’;in their historical learning
to describe events from the past using dates when things happened
talk about things that happened when they were use the words ‘past’ and little ‘present’ accurately recognise that a story thatis read to them may have happened a long time ago know that some objectsbelonged to the past retell a familiar story set inthe past explain how they have changed since they were born Knowledge and interpretation appreciate that some famous people have helpedour lives be better today recognise that we
use a range of appropriate words and phrases to describe the past sequence a set of events in chronological order and give reasons for their order Knowledge and interpretation recount the life of someone famous from Britain who lived in the past giving attention to what they did earlier and what they did later explain how their local area was different in the past recount some interesting facts from an historical event, such as where the ‘Fire of London’ started give examples of things that are different in their life from that of their grandparents
to describe events and periods using the words: ancient and century to use a timeline within a specific time in history to set out the order things may have happened to use their mathematical knowledge to work out how long ago events would have happened
Year 4: Chronological Understanding plot recent history on a timeline using centuries place periods of history ona timeline showing periods of time use their mathematical skills to round up time differences into centuries and decades Knowledge and interpretation explain how events from the past have helped shapeour lives appreciate that wars have happened from a very long time ago and are often associated with invasion, conquering or religious differences
Knowledge and interpretation to appreciate that the early Brits would not have communicated as we do or have eaten as we do
know that people who lived in the past cooked and travelled differently and used different weapons fromours
recognise that the lives of to begin to picture what life wealthy people were very would have been like for the different from those of poor early settlers people to recognise that Britain has been invaded by several different groups over time
appreciate how items found belonging to the past are helping us to build up an accurate picture of how people
Year 5: Chronological Understanding use dates and historical language in their work draw a timeline with different time periods outlined which show different information, such as, periods of history, when famous people lived, etc.
Year 6: Chronological Understanding develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history make links and connections between different historical periods
use their mathematical skills to work out exact time Knowledge and scales and differences as interpretation need be devise historically Knowledge and valid questions about interpretation change, cause, similarity and describe historical events difference, and from the different significance period/s they are studying/have studied make comparisons between historical periods; explaining things that have changed and things which have stayed the same begin to appreciate that how we make decisions has been through a Parliament for some time appreciate that significant events in history have helped shape the country we have today
Historical Enquiry decipher between opinion and fact and write or retell an historically accurate explanation of an event Make links between our lives now and the life of people in the period of study – compare and contrast
celebrate certain events, such as bonfire night, because of what happenedmany years ago understand that we have aqueen who rules us and thatBritain has had a king or queen for many years begin to identify the main differences between old and new objects
when they were young explain why Britain has a special history by naming some famous events and some famous people explain what is meant by a parliament Historical Enquiry find out something about the past by talking to an older person answer questions by using a specific source, such as an information book
research the life of a famous identify objects from the Briton from the past using past, such as vinyl records different resources to help them Historical Enquiry research about a famous event that happens in Britain ask and answer and why it has been questions about old and happening for some time new objects (toys) spot old and new things research the life of someone who used to live in their area in a picture using the Internet and other answer questions using sources to find out about artefact/ photograph them provided give a plausible explanation about what an object was used for in the past
to realise that invaders in the past would have fought fiercely, using hand to hand combat to suggest why certain events happened as they didin history to suggest why certain people acted as they did in history
lived in the past Historical Enquiry
Historical Enquiry
Research two versions of an event and say how they differ
test out a hypothesis in order to answer a question
research what it was like for a child in a given period from the past and use photographs and illustrations to present their findings
Historical Enquiry
give more than one reason to support an historical argument
to recognise the part that archaeologists have had in helping us understand more about what happened in the past
communicate knowledge and understanding orally and in writing and offer points of view based upon what they have found out
to use various sources of evidence to answer questions to use various sources to piece together information about a period in history to research a specific event from the past •to use their ‘information finding’ skills in writing to help them write about historical information through research, to identify similarities and differences between given periods in history
appreciate how historical artefacts have helped us understand more about British lives in the present and past give more than one reason to support an historical argument communicate knowledge and understanding orally and in writing and offer points of view based upon what they have found out