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.