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Autumn Spring Summer
Year 1/2 Cycle A
Seaside Past & Present

History of homes
Castles

Famous people – Florence Nightingale
Grace Darling
Year 1/2 Cycle B
My personal History families, timelines


History of toys

Victorian Schools
Year 3
Ancient Greeks
Arts and architecture
Everyday life in Ancient Greece
Relations with other countries
Myths and legends
Influence on modern world

Romans
Invasion and Empire.
Roman Britain
Arts and architecture,
Queen Boudicca,
Everyday life,
Gods/Goddesses,
The Roman Legacy

Anglo Saxons and Vikings -
Invasion and Settlements, Arts and Culture, Everyday life, Myths and Religion.
Early Christianity
Alfred the Great
Influence on modern world – language and place names.
Year 4
Tudors - Monarchs and major events,
time line and family tree,
Henry VII to Elizabeth I,
including break with Rome, dissolution of monasteries, games and education

Life in Tudor times
Court life – palaces and travel,
Town life – buildings, health, hygiene
Workers, livery and trade,
Country life
Houses – rich and poor – making comparisons
Explorers - Drake, Raleigh, The Armada

The Arts and Entertainment – the theatre, Shakespeare, music, sports and pastimes
The Stuarts - Monarchs and major events including ‘The Commonwealth’, the Fire of London and the Plague.
Year 5
Exploration and Encounters 1450 – 1550
Reasons for Voyages of exploration, Spanish voyages, nature of Aztec civilization, the encounter of two cultures and its results.

Victorian Britain -
The study of people in different classes of society in different areas of Britain and the effects of industrialization using ‘How we used to live’ video.
Family life, servants, work and the working class, disease and medicine, entertainment, rural life for rich and poor, Christmas.

Victorian Britain continued - using video ‘ How we used to live ‘
Victorian Sabbath, work houses, holidays, sweated labour, Victorian inventions, crime and punishments (police), housing and planning, courtship and marriage.
Year 6
Britain since 1930
Major events and developments, the way of life in Britain since 1930 with particular emphasis on the Home Front in World War II. The events of 1940, including the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and Rationing.

Britain since 1930 continued
the arrival of the Americans, Rationing, the role of women, D Day, the end of the war

Britain since 1945 -
Post war Britain including the Labour administration, creation of the Welfare State and the NHS, Nationalisation.


Britain since 1945 continued,
Post war building, the development of new technology and entertainment, music and youth culture, fashion, changes in transport.

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