Bellefield CofE Primary & Nursery School

 

History

Bellefield Curriculum Overview

 

History

We want all children at Bellefield to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We want to inspire their curiosity to know more about the past and thereby develop their understanding of their place in history. Children will have an understanding of change, where change has happened over time or due to a significant event or person. Children will learn about how different people lived and how this affected their relationships and daily life.

Reception

Links to EYFS

Children in the EYFS are learning to understand the world in which they live, starting with their immediate environment and community as well as their own families. Children learn about the historical world world around them through stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems. The Reception children use their ‘Super Six books’ to introduce the children to different historical concepts.

Children at the expected level of development will:

- Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class; 
-Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.

 Reception

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle A (all years)

All about me (family and community)

Old and New Toys

Nativity Story- figures from the past

 

Important figures:

David Attenborough

King Charles

Year 1

 Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle A (all years)

Old and New Trowbridge

(Amelia Earhart)

 

Queen Elizabeth 

David Attenborough

Year 2/3

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle A
(2023-24)

Hospitals: Emergency 999

(Florence Nightingale, Mary Secole)

Time Travel

(The Great Fire of London, Titanic)

Cycle B
(2022-2023)

Brunel: Building Bridges

Wild West/Australia

Seaside

(Grace Darling)

Cycle C
(2021-2022)

Space: To infinity and beyond!

(Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins)

Back to Nature (The Tin Forest)

Castles: Towers,Tunnels and Turrets

(William the Conqueror)

LKS2

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle A
(2023-2024)

Shang Dynasty

The Stone Age-Iron Age

Cycle B
(2021-2022)

Archie’s War (WW1)

Tudors

(Monarchs, William Shakespeare)

Cycle C (2022-2023)

Romans

Victorians

UKS2

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle A
(2022 - 2023)

Ancient Greece

Anglo Saxons and Vikings

Cycle B
(2023-2024)

World War 2

Mayan Civilisation