Chronological understanding
1 Pupils should be taught to:
- Place events and objects in chronological order
- Use common words and phrases relating to the passing of time (eg. Before, after, a long time ago, past)
Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
2 Pupils should be taught to:
- Recognise why people did things, why events happened and what happened as a result
- Identify differences between ways of life at different times
Historical interpretation
3 Pupils should be taught to identify different ways in which the past is represented.
Historical enquiry
4 Pupils should be taught to:
- How to find out about the past from a range of sources of information (eg. Stories, eye-witness accounts, pictures, and photographs, artefacts, historic buildings and visits to museums, galleries and sites)
- To ask and answer questions about the past
Breadth of study
6 During the key stage, pupils should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through the following areas of study:
- Changes in their own lives and the way of life of their family or others around them
- The way of life of people in the more distant past who lived in the local area or elsewhere in Britain
