History

At Springfield Primary School, we believe that high-quality history lessons inspire children to want to know more about the past and to think and act as historians. By linking learning to a range of topics, children have opportunities to investigate and interpret the past, understand chronology, build an overview of Britain’s past as well as that of the wider world, and to be able to communicate historically.

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year 1	Significant people - Astronauts; Changes within living memory	Significant individuals - Sir Francis Beaufort	Discrete	Discrete	Significant historical people - Captain James Cook, Grace Darling; Famous pirates	Significant historical people - Captain James Cook, Grace Darling; Famous pirates
Year 2	Discrete	Castles and castle life; Significant individuals - Isambard Kingdom Brunel	The Great Fire of London	Changes within living memory; Significant people, Places and events in local area	Discrete	Historical heroes
Year 3	Discrete	A local history study	Discrete	Discrete	Geographical skills and fieldwork	Native Americans
Year 4	Historic use of potions	Anglo-Saxons and Viking	Discrete	Discrete	Ancient Greece	19th century ocean exploration
Year 5	Ancient Egypt	Significant individuals - Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton; 1960's Space Race	Discrete	Changes over the last century	The Victorians	Discrete
Year 6	The Second World War	Discrete	Emigration and exploration in the early 1900s	Discrete	Significant individuals - Charles Darwin, Mary Anning	14th century England