Autumn 1 - What were schools like in the past?

By the end of the term, secure children will be able to:

• Correctly order and date four photographs on a timeline and add some dates.
• Ask one question about schools in the past.
• Make one comparison between schools in the past and present.
• Use sources to research and develop an understanding of what schools were like 100 years ago.
• Identify three features of a classroom now and a classroom 100 years ago, identifying some similarities and differences.
• Recognise two similarities and two differences between schools now and schools in the past.
• State whether they would have preferred to go to school in the past or not and explain why.

Autumn 2 - Would you like to live somewhere hot or somewhere cold?

By the end of the term, secure children will be able to:

• Name and locate the seven continents on a world map.
• Locate the North and the South Poles on a world map.
• Locate the Equator on a world map.
• Describe some similarities and differences between the UK and Kenya.
• Investigate the weather, writing about it using key vocabulary and explaining whether they live in a hot or cold place.
• Recognise the features of hot and cold places.
• Locate some countries with hot or cold climates on a world map.

Spring 1 – How did we learn to fly? 

By the end of the term, secure children will be able to:

• Identify important events surrounding the history of flight.
• Explain how a significant event has changed the lives of others.
• Ask questions about people and events in the past.
• Use primary sources to find out about people and events in the past.
• Correctly order five events on a timeline.

Spring 2 – Why is our world wonderful?

By the end of the term, Pupils who are secure will be able to:

• Identify and locate characteristics of the UK on a map.
• Identify human and physical features.
• Locate human and physical features on a world map.
• Explain the difference between oceans and seas.
• Name and locate the five oceans on a world map.
• Use an aerial photograph to draw a simple sketch map.
• Collect data by sketching findings on a map and completing a tally chart.
• Present their findings in a bar chart.

Summer 1 – What is a monarch?

By the end of the term, Pupils who are secure will be able to:

• Recall that a monarch is a king or queen.
• Identify some of the monarch’s roles.
• Explain that a king or queen is crowned in a special ceremony called a coronation.
• Name some of the main steps in the coronation ceremony.
• Use sources to explain how William the Conqueror became King of England.
• Explain how William the Conqueror kept order and conquered England.
• Explain how castles have changed over time.
• Identify that the power of monarchs has changed over time.
• Make comparisons between past and present monarchies.

Summer 2 – What is it like to live by the coast? 

By the end of the term,  Pupils who are secure will be able to:

• Name and locate the seas and oceans surrounding the UK in an atlas.
• Label these on a map of the UK.
• Describe the location of the seas and oceans surrounding the UK using compass points.
• Define what the coast is.
• Locate coasts in the UK.
• Name some of the physical features of coasts.
• Explain the location of UK coasts using the four compass directions.
• Name features of coasts and label these on a photograph.
• Identify human features in a coastal town.
• Describe how people use the coast.
• Follow a prepared route on a map.
• Identify human features on the local coast.
• Record data using a tally chart.
• Represent data in a pictogram.
• Describe how the local coast has been used.