KS1 Topic: Events Beyond Living Memory (National Or Global) Commemorated Through Festivals
KS1 Topic: Events beyond Living Memory (national or global) commemorated through festivals or anniversaries
Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally: events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries. Choose from our series of lively and creative blocks: find out about key commemorative days such as Remembrance Day, Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving Day, the first aeroplane flight, Shakespeare’s birthday, the Monarch’s official birthday, important National Days and Commonwealth Day.
Block / Key NC Objectives / Main creative outcomesBlock A
Remembrance Day
6sessions / History,Art,and SMSC (spiritual, moral, social and cultural development) non-statutory
- Study events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally: events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries.
- Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time.
- Know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
- Use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms.
- Ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know and understand key features of events.
- Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
- Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
- Learn about the work of a range of artists … and making links to their own work.
- Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England.
- Further tolerance & harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own & other cultures.
Block B
Bonfire night and Guy Fawkes
3 sessions / History andEnglish
- Develop an awareness of the past, through finding out about changes within living memory.
- Develop an awareness of the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
Block C
Thanksgiving Day
4 sessions / History, Geography, D&TandEnglish
- Study events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally: events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries.
- Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time.
- Know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
- Use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms.
- Ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know and understand key features of events.
- Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.
- Locational knowledge - name and locate continents and oceans.
- Skills - use world maps, atlases and globes to identify countries, oceans; use simple compass directions.
- Make - select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks (cutting, shaping, joining and finishing).
- Cooking - understand where food comes from.
- Spoken language - develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imaging and exploring idea.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.
Block D
The First Aeroplane Flight
5 sessions / History,English,Science andD&T
- Develop an awareness of the past, through finding out about changes within living memory.
- Develop an awareness of the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
- Find out about changes within living memory and develop an awareness of the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings, participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.
- Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
- Perform simple tests, using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
- Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing.
Block E
The Monarch’s Official Birthday
4 sessions / History,DT,English,MathsandPE
- Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant, nationally or globally: events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries.
- Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time.
- Know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
- Make - select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks (cutting, shaping, joining and finishing).
- Spoken language – develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imaging and exploring idea; participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debates.
- Measurement - recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years.
- Statistics - interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables, ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity, ask and answer questions about totaling and comparing categorical data.
- Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.
Block F
Shakespeare’s Birthday
3 sessions / History andEnglish
- Develop an awareness of the past, through finding out about changes within living memory.
- Develop an awareness of the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
- Develop some understanding of chronology; begin to use vocabulary associated with the past.
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
Block G
National Days:
Canada Day
National day of Poland
Indian Republic Day
Peru Day
5 sessions / History: Geography,ArtandEnglish
- Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally: events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries.
- Name and locate the world’s 7 continents and 5 oceans.
- Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify countries, continents, oceans.
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
- Learn about the work of a range or artists, craft makers and designers,making links to their own work.
- Participate in discussion about and explain and discuss their understanding of information books + other material.
Block H
Commonwealth Day
4 sessions / History, Geography, Art,PE and SMSC
- Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
- Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage.
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
- Use drawing, painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
- Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.
- Acquire a further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures.
- Develop an acceptance that other people having different faiths or beliefs to oneself.