Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
EYFS	Black History Month Marvellous Me Emergency Services	Fairy Tales	Under the Sea Space		Dinosaurs
Year 1	Toys	Remembrance Day & Guy Fawkes		Huntley & Palmer (Queen Victoria)		Explorers
Year 2		Caversham 100 Years Ago	Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole		The Great Fire of London
Year 3	Stone Age		Romans		Vikings
Year 4		The Norman Invasion (incl local focus - Reading Museum)	The Mayans		Ancient Egyptians
Year 5	History: the Power of the Monarchs (William I onwards -  focus on chronology and characteristics of a good monarch) [including local focus – Windsor Castle].			History: the Power of the Monarchs (Henry VIII to George V vs ordinary people)		History: the Power of the Monarchs (Victoria vs ordinary people)
Year 6		Ancient Greece	Battle of Britain		The Windrush Generation

EYFS

Understanding the World:

• I can talk about the lives of people around me and their roles in society.
• I know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on my experiences and what has been read in class.
• I can understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

Black History Month; Marvellous Me; Emergency Services; Fairy Tales; Under the Sea; Dinosaurs.

 

KS1 Curriculum

Pupils should be taught about:

• changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life;

Year 1: Toys

 

• events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally;

Year 2: The Great Fire of London

Year 1: Remembrance Day & Guy Fawkes

 

• the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods;

Year 1: Explorers

Year 2: Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole

 

• significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

Year 1: Huntley & Palmer (Queen Elizabeth II & Queen Victoria I)

Year 2: Caversham 100 Years Ago

 

KS2 Curriculum

Pupils should be taught about:

• changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age;

Year 3

 

• the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain;

Year 3

 

• Britain’s settlement by AngloSaxons and Scots;

Year 3

 

• the Viking and AngloSaxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor;

Year 3

 

• a local history study;

Year 4: Reading Museum – The Bayeux Tapestry (The Normans)

Year 6: The Windrush Generation

 

• a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils chronological knowledge beyond 1066;

Year 4: The Normans (invasion)

Year 5: The Changing Power of the Monarchy (3 stages: Medieval Monarchs; Tudor Monarchs; and Victorian Monarchs)

Year 6: Battle of Britain (invasion)

 

• the achievements of the earliest civilisations – an overview of where and when the first civilisations appeared and a depth study of one of the following: Ancient Sumer; The Indus Valley; Ancient Egypt; the Shang Dynasty of Ancient China;

Year 4: Ancient Egypt

 

• Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world;

Year 6

 

• a nonEuropean society that provides contrasts with British history – one study chosen from: early Islamic civilisation, including a study of Baghdad c AD900; Mayan civilisation c AD900; Benin (West Africa) c AD900-1300.

Year 4: The Mayans