Knowledge and skills:

During Year 3 & Year 4 the children learn to:

• describe events from the past using dates when things happened;
• use a timeline within a specific period of history to set out the order that things may have happened;
• use their mathematical knowledge to work out how long ago events happened;
• explain some of the times when Britain has been invaded
• use research skills to find answers to specific historical questions;
• research in order to find similarities and differences between two or more periods of history.

• plot events on a timeline using centuries;
• use their mathematical skills to round up time differences into centuries and decades;
• explain how the lives of wealthy people were different from the lives of poorer people;
• explain how historic items and artefacts can be used to help build up a picture of life in the past;
• explain how an event from the past has shaped our life today;
• research two versions of an event and explain how they differ;
• research what it was like for children in a given period of history and present my findings to an audience.