Throckley Primary School History Overview Year 1 Terrific trains! How do we get around? Local history study.
Autumn
Significant person: George Stephenson. Innovation: Creation of new forms of transport specifically trains.
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Why was Grace Darling a hero? Local history study.
Are you team Stone, Bronze or Iron?
How have the Ancient Greeks influenced our society?
Significant person: Grace Darling
Significant person: Alexander the Great.
Civilisation: 1830s to now. Education, family size, home and gender. Sequencing events.
Innovation: Change over 3 prehistoric time periods. Weapons/use of resources, language, money/trade and travel, land use beliefs.
Empire: Key events in monarchy. Y1 (Summer)
The Great Fire of London. Y2 (Summer)
Innovation: Greek inventions and their impact on us today.
Civilisation: What is the most popular form of transport we use?
Civilisation: Success and legacy of Greek society.
Empire: Why did the Greeks feel they needed to expand their ideas? Civilisation across EuropeRomans/Greeks. Similarities and differences.
Year 5 How did our local area affect the Battle of Newburn Ford? Local study Civilisation: causes of conflict and impact on Newcastle post conflict. Empire: Tension between the English and the Scots. Empire Y4, tension between English and Irish, compare to tension between Scots and English.
Year 6 How did conflict affect society during WW2? Civilisation: causes of conflict and impact on life at the time. Empire: Hitler’s attempt to expand the German Empire into Europe. Why did Britain have so many allies? Explore the participation of other countries in WW2. Empire Y3 Victorians, is Empire a good thing for everyone? Is it fair?
Victorians Y4 (Summer) Battle of Newburn Y5 (Autumn)
Spring
Egyptians Y3 (Spring) How have explorers changed our lives?
Why will we remember David Attenborough?
Should we celebrate the Ancient Egyptians?
What can Pompeii tell us about Roman life?
How has the Maya civilisation influenced the modern world?
How has the Earth’s climate changed since the 1800s?
Significant people: Neil Armstrong and Mae Jemison.
Significant person: David Attenborough.
Significant people: Howard Carter and King Tutankhamun.
Civilisation: Pompeii as a primary source/use of sources primary and secondary.
Civilisation: Religion, mythology, architecture, daily life. Evaluate sources.
Innovation: How his documentaries have changed with technology improvement. Chronology of his lifetime. Key events.
Civilisation: Why they developed their civilisation around the Nile.
Empire: What was life like in a Roman city?
Civilisations beyond Europe. Compare to the Romans and Greeks.
Civilisation: Our impact on our world, how modern societies have influenced the climate. Choices we have made. Sequencing and chronology.
Innovation: Sequencing moon landing and life. Compare transport and travel. Innovation: Different forms of transport, trains and spaceships
Summer
New transport – trains. Y1 (Autumn) Change in living memory. Focusing on the British monarchy. Chronology unit. Building on knowledge of sequencing events. Key events within their own lifetime.
Greeks Y4 (Autumn)
Innovation: New inventions that will help the planet.
Grace Darling Y2 (Autumn) Stone, Bronze and Iron (Y3 Autumn)
Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?
Should the Romans have invaded Britain?
Significant person: Samuel Pepys.
Significant person: Boudicca.
Civilisation: Why did the fire happen? Structure of London. Innovation: How London changed after the fire.
Empire: British monarchy. Moon landings. Y1 (Spring)
Innovation: Inventions and their impact today.
Comparing different civilisations to our own. 1830s with Grace Darling and 1666 London to present day. David Attenborough Y2 (Spring)
Empire: How can one person, for example the Roman Emperor make the decisions for a whole country/empire?
David Attenborough Y1 and Y2
The Victorians Did the Victorian Empire benefit everyone? Significant people: Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens. Empire: What was life like for different children of the Empire?
Y3 - Compare to the Egyptian Empire. Y1- Monarchy and Emperor.
Empire: Y1 monarchy and Y4 Romans.
Egyptians Y3 (Spring)
Pompeii Y4 (Spring)
Barbaric or civilised: How did the Vikings develop over time? Innovation: Improvements made to trade/society. Empire: Invasion of Britain, treaty with the Anglo Saxons. Maya civilisation Y5 (Spring)
How fierce were the AngloSaxons? A study of AngloSaxon battle strategies. Empire: How did Anglo-Saxon battle strategies help them expand their Empire? Innovation: Government. Sophisticated system of taxing and rule. Vikings Y5 (Summer)