What do we want our curriculum to achieve?

• Support all pupils to work historically through enquiry and an investigative approach
• For pupils to increase and extend their knowledge of the subject
• Ensure appropriate historical vocabulary is introduced and consolidated
• Begin to explain significant historical events and the actions of notable people

How do we fulfil this?

• Throughout KS1 we challenge and support children to carry out a number of historical enquiries.
• Use and apply subject vocabulary, subject skills and processes
• Each enquiry has a set of key questions to complete as they progress through the module.

Year 1

Study History: changes within living memory

Pupils are taught about:

• changes within living memory. 
• This focuses on chronology within living memory to develop a sense of change over time.

Study the lives of significant individuals

Pupils are taught about:

• the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
• Mary Anning and David Attenborough.
• Neil Armstrong, Mae Jemison, Bernard Harris Jr and Tim Peake.

Revisit – study changes within living memory

Pupils are taught about:

• changes within living memory.
• remembering and applying understanding of the chronological changes that young children have experienced through their lives.

Year 2

Study Events Beyond Living Memory – Great Fire of London

Pupils are taught about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.

• This study looks at the cause and effect of the Great Fire of London.
• This event happened a long time ago – over 350 years. The chronology focuses on the events over a few terrible days rather than a depth study into the period of time.

Study Year 2 historical events, people and places in their own locality

Pupils are taught about:

• significant historical events, people and places in Rugby.
• This focuses on the local area, significant people and places (Rugby, William Webb Ellis, Rugby School)

Retrieve and Study Events Beyond Living Memory – Great Fire of London

Pupils are taught about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.

• They look at the cause and effect of the Great Fire of London.
• This event happened a long time ago – over 350 years. The chronology focuses on the events over a few terrible days rather than a depth study into the period of time.