History Curriculum Map- Northfields Infant School and Nursery
History at Northfields Infants and Nursery School
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Our children will experience:
Visits/Visitors
| Key Historical figures: Year 1: Neil Armstrong, Matthew Henson, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II, Walt Disney Year 2: Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Guy Fawkes, Samuel Pepys, King Charles II, Grace Darling Key Historical events: Year 1: First moon landing, first man to reach the North Pole, castles through the ages, toy development Year 2: Local history of Letchworth Garden City, the gunpowder plot, the Great Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of London of 1666, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, creating of nursing | Topics covering History skills in Year 1: Castles Around the World On our Doorstep Explorers Toy Story
Topics covering History skills in Year 2: Letchworth Lives April Showers Fire, Fame and Fortune The Wicked and the Wise Growing Forest School |
Progression in vocabulary: Year 1 Past, present, older, newer, chronological, order, recently, today, tomorrow, years, months, days Year 2 (Year 2 also reinforce previous vocabulary learnt) Artefacts, decade, parliament, chronology, sequence, events, importance |
ELG
Changes within living memory
Year 1 (become familiar with their own lives and immediate family and begin to use simple terminology)
Year 2 (understand and describe how events and places have changed within their own lives)
Events beyond living memory and the lives of significant individuals
Year 1 (Describe simple events and significant figures)
Year 2 (Discuss historical figures and events and explain why they happened and how this influences our lives now)
Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
Year 1 (identifying and describing events in their own locality)
Year 2 (compare historical events, people and places in their own locality using artefacts and pictures)