Whinstone HISTORY

History at Whinstone is taught discretely but also through other subject areas, allowing for historical thinking to be developed in context and across the curriculum. It is the process of enquiry, the search for evidence and the examination of this evidence to help children reconstruct the past that is at the heart of History at Whinstone. Our History curriculum is coherently planned into the following sequence of topics:

HISTORY Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Year 1 Gunpowder plot Queens of England Local people from history.
Year 2 Gunpowder plot Queens of England Local people from history.
Year 3 Stone Age and Bronze Age Iron Age and The Celts Ancient Egypt
Year 4 Romans and impact on Britain Ancient Greece Islamic civilisation
Year 5 Anglo Saxons The Vikings History of Whitby
Year 6 The British Empire World War I World War II