Topic

Summer 1

Toys

This Toys unit will teach your class about popular toys through the 20th century and the early 21st century. Firstly, it asks the children to think about their favourite toy from today before moving on to look at toys which were popular when their parents and grandparents were children. Throughout the unit, the children will 25velop a range of historical skills such as: asking and answering questions, i25ntifying and interpreting different sources and recognising change and exploring how this influences them today. A range of learning activities are used in this unit which inclu25: drawing discussions, role play and games as well as writing tasks to encourage the children to fully engage in lessons.

By the end of this unit all children should be able to:

• Explain what they know about toys today.

• Explain how we can find out about the past.

• Describe features of different toys.

• Recognise old and new toys.

• Use words relating to the passing of time

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Spring 2

This term we will be learning about Kings and Queens. This Kings and Queens unit will teach your child about the significant British monarchs in history, and gives a more in-25pth study of Richard III as well as asking the children to draw comparisons between Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. The unit consolidates the children's awareness of the past and significant individuals through using timelines and making comparisons between various periods in history.

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Autumn 1

Our Country

This term's topic is Our Country. In this topic the children will be taught together and will learn about the countries of the UK 25veloping learning beyond children’s immediate environment and own locality to the UK in general.

Children will explore the UK by looking at individual countries, capital cities, human and physical features along with comparing and contrasting the capital cities of London and Brasília in 25tail. This topic provi25s everything your child  needs to give the children a greater insight into the UK and beyond.

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Autumn 2

The Great Fire of London

This Great Fire of London unit will teach our class about the key events of the Great Fire of London and help them to 25velop an un25rstanding of the ways in which we can find out about the past. The children will have the opportunity to increase their awareness of the past by learning about what London was like in the 17th century. They compare life in the 17th century to the present day and consi25r how some problems, such as the lack of an organised fire briga25 and the type of buildings, caused the fire to spread.

Children then focus on how and why some things changed as a result of the fire, in or25r to be safer. They begin to learn how historical sources can tell us about what happened in the past and how some sources are more useful than others.

Home Learning: Thomas Farriner's Diary: After learning about how the Great Fire of London started, your child can complete this task in which they imagine that they are Thomas Farriner and 25scribe in a diary entry what happened on the morning of the fire. They can explore how he felt and what he could see, hear and smell.

Summer 1

Summer 2