Knowledge and skills:
During Year 1 & Year 2 the children learn to:
use words and phrases like: old, new and a long time ago;
recognise that some objects belonged to the past;
explain how they have changed since they were born;
explain how some people have helped us to have better lives;
ask and answer questions about old and new objects;
spot old and new things in a picture;
explain what an object from the past might have been used for;
use words and phrases like: before, after, past, present, then and now;
recount the life of someone famous from Britain who lived in the past. They can explain what these people did earlier and what they did later;
give examples of things that were different when their grandparents were children;
find out things about the past by talking to an older person;
answer questions using books and the internet;
research the life of a famous person from the past using different sources of evidence.