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History Knowledge Overview 2020-2021

Autumn Spring Summer The queen, the royal family Ascent of man Dinosaurs Elizabeth11 Moon Landings 1969 Digging up bones and how we know about them.

• Who is our Queen? • Who is the first man who landed on the • How do we know that dinosaurs • Why is she important? moon? existed? EYFS • Who is in her family? • When did he land on the moon? • What is a palaeontologist? • What does she do? • How did he land on the moon? • What dinosaurs ruled the Earth? • What did he say when he landed on the • Why don’t we see dinosaurs today? moon? Prehistoric Britain (The Ice Ages) Wars of the Tudor

• What does Prehistoric Britain • What started the Wars of the Roses? • Who was Henry VIII and why was he mean? What was Britain like during Why did the two sides of the family start a significant during Tudor Dynasty? Why the Ice Ages? civil war? did he marry ? • What does extinct mean? What • Who was the better king Henry VI or What was the problem with their animals lived during the Ice Ages? Edward IV? marriage? • What could cause species to go • Why did Edward V have a short reign? • Why did people dislike the Catholic extinct? How do we know about • How did Richard III become king? Church? Why did Henry VIII want to what animals lived during the Ice • Why did Shakespeare create Richard III as break with Rome? Ages? a villain? • Why did Henry VIII have so many wives? • What does extant mean? • Who was Henry Tudor (Henry VII) and • Who were Henry VIII’s children and Year 1 • What have extant animals done to why was he significant during the Wars of what was his religion? survive compared to the extinct the Roses? • How did the church change under animals? Edward VI to make a protestant Curriculum writing – Essay – How did Henry VII country? Curriculum writing - Fact file - Which Ice bring peace to ? • Who was Queen Mary and what Ages animals are now extinct? changes to religion did she make?

Curriculum writing – Letter - From Henry VIII to the Pope Dinosaurs Bedford Chronicles – Page 21

Ancient Egyptians Stuarts (Pharaohs - Tutankhamun and Cleopatra) (Elizabeth 1’s Golden Age) ( and Great Fire of ) • Where in the world is Egypt? • Who was Queen and how long • What happened after Elizabeth I died? • Why was the Nile River important was her reign? How did Elizabeth I bring Why James VI of became James to the Ancient Egyptians? How was religious peace to England? I of England? the Nile River used by the Ancient • Why is the Elizabethan era also known as • Who was James I? What is meant by Egyptians? the ‘Golden Age’? ‘Divine right of kings’ and ‘union of the • What is archaeology? How does • Who was Shakespeare and why was he crowns’? How and why was the Union archaeology help us to find out significant during Elizabeth I’s Golden Age? flag created? about the past? • Who was Francis Bacon and why was he • Why did some plotters try to blow up • What are hieroglyphics? significant during Elizabeth I’s Golden Age? Parliament? • What is a pharaoh? What did the • Who were Sir Francis Drake and Sir • How was the gunpowder plot stopped?

Year 2 pharaohs wear? Walter Raleigh? Why were they significant • Who was Charles I and what mistakes • What is a pharaoh’s role? Who during the Elizabeth I’s Golden Age? did he make as king? What is a puritan? were Tutankhamen and Cleopatra? • What was the Spanish Armada and why • What caused the ? was it important during Elizabeth I reign? • Why was there a Great Fire of London? Curriculum writing – Essay - Why was the River Nile so significant to the Ancient Curriculum writing - Essay – Why was Queen Curriculum writing – Newspaper report – Fire Egyptians? Elizabeth I’s reign considered to be the Golden of London Age? Bedford Chronicles – Page 26-27 Tudor Dynasty Bedford Chronicles – Page 22 -25

Prehistoric Britain (Stone Age and Bronze Shang Dynasty Ancient Greece Age)

• How do we know about life in the • How do we know about the Shang • How was Greece organised?

Stone Age? Dynasty? • What was the Golden Age of Ancient • How have humans changed over • How did the Shang Dynasty begin? Greece?

time (evolved)? • What was life like for people in the Shang • What did the Greeks believe? Year 3 • What were the different periods in Dynasty? • Who were the ancient Greek the Stone Age? • What did the Shang people believe? philosophers? • What was life like in a Stone Age • Who was Fu Hao? • Who won the Peloponnesian War? Settlement? • How did the Shang Dynasty end? • Why was Alexander so great?

• How did the Bronze Age change how humans lived? Curriculum writing – Essay – What do we know Curriculum writing - Essay – How did the • Who were the Celts, and what was about life during the Shang Dynasty? Ancient Greeks leave their mark on the world? life like for them? Curriculum writing – Essay - What do we know about the Prehistoric period?

Bedford Chronicles – Page 4-5

Stuarts

Roman Britain Anglo-Saxon and Scots Vikings • How did the Roman Empire • How do we know about the Anglo- • Why did the Vikings invade Britain? become so powerful? Saxons? • What happened at in 793? • How do the Romans conquer • Who invaded Britain after the Romans • Why did Alfred sign a treaty with Britain? left? Gurthum? • Why did Boudica lead the revolt • What was life like for Anglo-Saxons? • Were the Vikings the first Europeans to against the Romans? Was Boudica • What did the Anglo Saxons believe? discover the Americas? brave or foolish? • What was the ? • Who were the Norse Gods? • How did the Romans change • Why did the Anglo-Saxons build forts? • Did King Cnut try to stop the tide from

Britain? coming in?

• What did the Romans believe? Curriculum writing – Essay – How was Britain • Why did the Romans leave Britain? changed by the invaders who had come? Curriculum writing – Essay – How did rule of Year 4 Britain change in Viking times and why? Curriculum writing – Bedford Chronicles – Page 8 -11 How did the Romans change life in Britain? Bedford Chronicles – Page 12 -17

Bedford Chronicles – Page 6-7

Ancient Greece

Benin Kingdom Medieval Monarchs Middle East • How did the Benin Kingdom begin? • In 1066, who was the rightful heir to the • How was the Kingdom of Israel • What was life like for the Edo throne? established? people in the Benin Kingdom? • Who was responsible for the death of • Why is the Middle East important to • How were trade links established Thomas Becket? different religions? and what goods were traded? • Who was the worse King: Richard or • What was the Ottoman Empire? • What led to the Civil War in the John? • What events lead to the Arab-Israeli war 1700s? • In what ways was Edward I a ‘great and in 1948? • What was the Transatlantic Slave terrible’ King? • Why did Israel and Arab nations fight Trade? • Why did Henry VIII initiate the wars, and how did it change who

Year 5 • Why did the British colonise Benin ? controlled the area? and what impact did this have? • Was Elizabeth I ‘weak and feeble’? • What is the situation with the Israel- Palestinian conflict? Curriculum writing – Essay – What, in Curriculum writing – Essay – What were the your opinion, was the Benin Kingdom’s strengths of each medieval monarch which helped Curriculum writing – Essay – What would it greatest achievement? them rule? take for peace in the Middle East to be achieved?

Vikings

Industrial Revolution Civil Rights Twentieth Century Conflict

• What were the key features of • What was the United States of America • What caused the First World War to Victorian Society? like in the 1950s? break out? • How did living conditions change • Why did Oliver Brown take the Board of • Why were so many lives lost on the during the Industrial Revolution? Education to Supreme Court? Western Front? • How did working conditions change • Why didn’t Rosa Parks give up her seat on • Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? during the Industrial Revolution? the bus? • How did Hitler rise to power in the • What inventions revolutionised the • What was Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1930s? lives of British people? dream? • What was life like in Nazi Germany? • How did the Industrial Revolution • Why did 3.200 people march from Selma • Was the Second World War inevitable? change the lives of people in to Montgomery? Bedfordshire? • What is the Black Lives Matter Movement Curriculum writing – Essay – “The outbreak of • What political changes took place and why is it needed? WWII was inevitable.” To what extent do you during the Industrial Revolution? agree with this statement?

Year 6

Curriculum writing – Essay – ‘The most Curriculum writing – Essay – “Civil disobedience Bedford Chronicles – Page 30-33 important changes in Britain between was more important to legal decision during the 1750-1900 were political.’ To what extent civil rights movement.” Do you agree? do you agree with this statement?

Bedford Chronicles – Page 29 Middle East