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HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
  Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
Y1

Me, Myself and I

NC Statement -History:

Changes in living memory. Reveal aspects of changes in real life. Significant person-Queen Elizabeth

Looking at toys

NC Statement - Geography: Local environment, iuse of maps, compass direction. Landmarks and map marking. significant person- Allan Ahlberg, Charles Dickens. 

Moon Landings

NC Statement - History: Changes in history, significant person- Neil Armstrong. 

Looking at Dinosaurs

NC Statment- History: Events in the past, significant person- Mary Anning

Around the World

NC Statement- History: Continents and oceans, compare UK and Africa. Compare schools and look at own school. Significant person - Nelson Mandela.

Seasides

NC Statement- Geography: characteristics of the 4 countries, UK and capitals. 

  Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
Y2

Exploring the Captial: London

NC Statements - History:
significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

NC Statements - Geography:
Name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding sea. 

Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: 
-key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop.

Use aerial photogrpahs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks. 

The Great Fire of London

NC Statements - History:
Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

NC Statements - Geography:

Use aerial photographs and plans perspectives to recognise landmarks

Fabulous Florence!

NC Statements - History:

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. 

Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.

NC Statments - Geography:

Understand georgraphical similarities and differences through studying th ehman and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European Country.  

Superheros

NC Statements Art and Design:
about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences ad similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work. 

To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. 

 

Farming: Then and Now.

NC Statements - Geography:

Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom

Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to:
- key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather. 

 

 

Eco-Warriors!

NC Statemens - Geography:

Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. 

Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: 
- key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather
-key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop. 

  Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
Y3

The Ancient Egyptians

NC Statements- History: 

The achievements of the earliest civilzations - an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of Ancient Egypt. 

Famous Artists - Roy Lichtenstein

NC Statements - Art and Design:
To learn about great artists, architects and designers in history.

Extreme Earth

NC Statements - Geography:
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: 
Climate zons, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes and the water cycle. 

Local Area

NC Statements- Geography:

Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changes over time. 

Human geography, including: 
types of settlement and land use,
economic activity including trace links, 
the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and wate.

Around the World
NC Statements - Geography

Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hempispher, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Merdian and time zones (including day and night)

Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied. 
Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references,  symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to the United Kingdom and the wider world

The Ancients Greeks

NC Statements - History:

Ancient Greece - a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on western world. 
 

  Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
Y4

History: Saxons

NC Statments - History
Develop knowledge of Britain's settlement by Angol-Saxons and Scots. 

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history. 

Develop the appropriate use of Historical terms 

Understand how our knowledge of the ast is constructed from a range of sources. 

History: Vikings

NC Statements - History

Develop knowledge of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edwards the Confessor. 

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history. 

Develop the appropriate use of historical terms

Understand how our knowledge of the past is contructed from a range of sources. 

 

Geography: The UK

NC Statements - Geography.

Extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include the United Kingdom.

Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rives), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. 

History: Romans

NC Statements - History

Develop knowledge of the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of Britsh, local and world history.

Develop the appropriate use of historical terms. 

Understand how our knowledge of the past is contructed from a range of sources. 

Artist Focus: Georges Seurat 

NC Statement - Art and Design

Develop knowledge of great artists, architects and designers in history. 

Improve mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing and painting. 

Geography: Rainforests

NC Statements - Geography

Describe and understand key aspects of: physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetations belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. 

  Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 
Y5

Geography: Maps

NC statements - Geography

To locate the world's countries, using maps to focus on Europe (includingthe location of Russia) and Northa and South America

To use symbols and a key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world
To use the eight points of a compass to build knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world. 

To use four and six-figure grid references to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world. 

Artist Focus: Charles Rennie Mcintosh

NC Statements - Art and Design

Develop knowledge of great artists, architects and designers in history

Improve mastery of art and design techiniques, including drawing and painting

Create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas. 

History: Stone Age to the Iron Age 

NC Statements - History.

Develop an understanding of Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. 

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history. 

Develop the appropriate use of historical terms. 

Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. 

History: Crime and Punishment

NC Statements - History 

To continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understadning of British Histor, studying a theme that extends pupils' chronological knowledge beyond 1066, such as changes in an aspect of social hisotry by learning about the the legacy of Roman crime and punishmnet on the current legal system in Britain. 

Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study by learning about crime and punishment during the Tudor ear. 

 

Geography: Rivers

NC Statements - Geography

To describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. 

To name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and landuse patterns and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. 

To locate the world's countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. 

History: Tudors

NC Statement - History

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils' chronological knowledge beyond 1066

A significant turning point in British history, for example, the first railways or the Battle of Britian (The Reformation)

  Term 1  Term 2  tErm 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
Y6

History

Stuarts

Civil war

Revolution

Historical sequence of  events.

People of note.

Turning points in British history.

Monarchy

Civil unrest

Geography

Mayflower

American settlement.

Slave trade

Continent knowledge.

Locational knowledge.

History

Victorians

Local history study.

Sequence of historical events.

Compare life in UK with life in another country at this time to support – historical sources. 

Geography

Mountains

Edmund Hillary

Develop geographical skills and fieldwork already gained in previous years.

Produce maps, use grid references and symbols etc.

History and Geography

World War One

Local history study – visitors and areas affected by the war (London and bombings etc).

Geographical importance of countries and their relation to one another.

Countries of Europe with regards to world geography.

Historical sequence of events.

Importance of sources – propaganda etc. 

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