Knowledge and skills:

During Year 5 & Year 6 the children learn to:

• draw a timeline with different historical periods showing key events or lives of significant people;
• compare two or more historical periods, explaining things which changed and things which stayed the same;
• explain how Parliament affects decision making in England;
• explain how our locality has changed over time;
• test out a hypothesis in order to answer questions;
• describe how crime and punishment has changed over a period of time.

• place features of historical events and people from past societies and periods in a chronological framework;
• summarise the main events from a period of history, explaining the order of events and what happened;
• summarise how Britain has had a major influence on the world;
• summarise how Britain may have learnt from other countries and civilisations (historically and more recently);
• identify and explain differences, similarities and changes between different periods of history;
• identify and explain propaganda;
• describe a key event from Britain’s past using a range of evidence from different sources;
• describe the features of historical events and way of life from periods I have studied, and present this to an audience.