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Local heritage is at the heart of our curriculum and we are fortunate to be surrounded by rich, diverse history in our locality. Where possible, local heritage is embedded throughout each topic, which enables pupils to focus on a ‘local’ area before moving to the ‘national’ and the ‘global’ scene.
| Year Group | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term |
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| EYFS | Talk about members of their immediate family and community. Name and describe people who are familiar to them. | Understand that some places are special to members of their community. Talk about their homes and comment on other homes. | Comment on images of familiar situations in the past. Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past. |
| Year One | Childhood Then and Now
What was life like when our grandparents were children?
NC: Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: How has childhood in the locality changed in the lifetime of my family?
| Homes Through History
How have houses and homes changed over time?
NC: Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: Homes in my locality - Ellesmere. Identifying Tudor, Victorian and Georgian houses.
| Significant People - Great Explorers Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong
Why were Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong great explorers?
NC: The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods.
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| Year Two | Travel and Transport Through Time
How and why travel and transport changed over time?
Creative thinkers – The invention and development of the first plane, locomotive and car.
NC: Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
Local Heritage: Development of local canals – Llangollen and Ellesmere. | The Great Fire of London
What happened to London during the great fire in 1666 and how do we know?
NC: Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: The Criftins School Fire – comparison.
| Significant People- Nurses
How did the lady of the lamp light out future?
NC: The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: Dame Agnes Hunt – ‘Shropshire’s Florence Nightingale’. The pioneer of Orthopaedic Nursing.
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| Year Three | Ancient Egypt
What were the greatest achievements of Ancient Egypt?
NC: The achievements of the earliest civilizations.
| Ancient Greece
What did the Ancient Greeks do for us?
NC: A study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Local Heritage: The Olympic Games revival and movement from Greece to Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
| The Changing Power of Monarchs
How has the changing monarchy impacted Britain?
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066. The changing power of monarchs using case studies such as John, Anne and Victoria.
Local Heritage: Owain Glyndwr's Revolt against the rule of King Henry IV of England. Medieval Castle of Sycharth. King Charles I's visit to Chirk Castle.
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| Year Four | Stone Age to Iron Age
How did daily life change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?
NC: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture
Local Heritage: Oswestry Iron Age Hill Fort.
| The Roman Empire
How did the Roman Empire impact Britain?
NC: The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.
Local Heritage: What can we learn about the Roman settlement from our local city of Chester?
| The Victorians & Industrial Revolution
Should the Victorian era be remembered as a dark age or a golden age?
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Ellesmere Workhouse. Study of Victorian Cockshutt/Criftins - homes, families, jobs, education during the Victorian era.
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| Year Five | Entertainment and Leisure in the 20th Century
How did the way people spend their leisure time change during the 20th century?
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Oswestry Picture Houses in the 1930s.
| Anglo Saxons
How did England change during the settlement of the Anglo Saxons and Vikings?
NC: Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life.
Local Heritage: Establishment of Shropshire. Influence of King Offa (of Merica) on the local area. Study of Offa’s dyke.
| Railways and their Growth -The first railways and how they shaped the country.
How did the railways change the lives of people in Britain?
NC: A study of an aspect of history or a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality.
Local Heritage: Study of the Cambrian railways that closed in the 1960s. Focus on the Ellesmere – Wrexham line which went through Dudleston Heath (Trench Halt station).
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| Year Six | Call the doctor! How death, illness, injury and disease can change the course of history.
How did the development of medicine change the course of history?
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Understand and describe the impact of the diphtheria outbreak in the local area. Focus on the family from The Bridgewater Hotel, Ellesmere.
| The Changing Role of Women
How have the roles and rights of women changed from the 18th century to today?
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Eglantine Jebb - the first woman to found a global children’s charity (Save the Children). Campaigner for women’s rights.
| Mayan Civilisation
Why should we remember the Maya?
NC: A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history.
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