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Catchgate Primary School, Blackett Street, Annfield Plain, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 8LX
Catchgate
Primary School
Spring 1
Whole School Theme- Builders and Buildings
For each whole school theme, children will be completing a range of activities to support their learning linking to the driver of 'Builders and Buildings' within each subject. There will be cross-curricular links for children to access the curriculum whilst being taught the knowledge and skills relevant to their year group within history.
EYFS-How have things changed since I was a baby?
Focus: Order images into a plausible chronological order,identify changes between me as a baby and myself now, identify similarities and differences between my now and the past
Year 1-History detectives – spot the differences! (Houses)
NC Ref: changes within living memory, places in locality
Focus: Use of primary sources, comparing to find similarity and difference, chronology, beginning to explain change and continuity.
Year 2-All change? Structures – Buildings in Catchgate – mining heritage
NC ref: Changes within living memory and beyond. Significant places in our own locality.
Focus: Identifying and writing about change and its causes. Forming an interpretation, use of primary sources
Year 3- Who were Britain’s first builders?
NC ref: Changes in Britain Stone Age to Iron Age
Focus: building and technology in earliest settlements, key features of an era, chronology (sequence and duration) change over time, using artefacts as primary sources, awareness of representations.
Year 4- What was daily life like for Romans? (Focus on Arbeia)
NC ref: The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
Focus: Key features of a global empire, chronology (duration) similarity and difference of experiences within the period (rich/poor, men/women/child, slave/ free) use of primary sources – supported inference and lines of enquiry
Year 5- Who was making history in faraway places in the year 1000? (Mayan focus)
NC ref: non-European society that provides contrast to British history
Focus: Chronology – developing terminology of periods, contemporaneous developments, key features of a contrasting society and its development, similarity and difference to Britain in c.1000, use of primary sources, identification of key points in historical interpretations.
Year 6- Can we choose Britain’s most important structure?
NC Ref: Aspect or theme since 1066
Focus: Chronological security – sequence and duration, key periods and their features, causation and consequences, use of primary sources to evaluate utility, producing own representations of the past.
Catchgate Primary School, Blackett Street, Annfield Plain, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 8LX