Download KS2 Personal local and global

Norbury Hall Primary School – Personal, Local and Global Understanding
History Skills to be covered each year
 Understand the history of the UK as a
coherent, chronological narrative
 Understand how Britain has been influenced
and been influenced by the wider world.
 Deploy a historically grounded understanding
of abstract terms such as ‘empire’,
‘civilisation’ and ‘parliament’.
 Understand historical concepts such as
continuity and change, cause and
consequence, similarity, difference and
significance and use them to make
connections, draw contrasts and identify
trends over time.
 Create their own structured accounts
including written narratives.
 Understand the methods of historical
enquiry, including how evidence is used to
make historical claims.
 Address and sometimes devise historically
valid questions.
Geography skills to be covered each year
 Locate the world’s countries using maps to
focus on Europe and North and South
America, concentrating on environmental
regions, key physical and human
characteristics, countries and major cities.
 Name and locate countries and cities of the
UK, geographical regions and identifying
human and physical characteristics, key
topographical features and land use
patterns; understand how some of these
aspects have changed over time.
 The position and significance of latitude,
longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere,
Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer
and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle,
the Prime / Greenwich Meridian and time
zones.
 Use maps, atlases, globes and digital /
computer mapping to locate countries and
describe features studied.
 Use the eight points of a compass, four and
six-figure grid references, symbols and key
(including OS maps)
 Use fieldwork to observe, measure and
record and present the human and physical
features in the local area using a range of
methods, including sketch maps, plans and
graphs, and digital technologies.
Key Stage 2
RE Skills to be covered each year
 Describe and make connections between
different features of religions
 Reflect on the significance of celebrations,
worship, pilgrimages and the rituals which
mark important points in life
 Describe and understand the links between
stories and other aspects of the faiths they
are investigating.
 Explore and describe a range of beliefs,
symbols and actions.
 Observe and understand varied examples of
religions.
 Understand the challenges of commitment to
a community of faith or belief, suggesting
why belonging to a community may be
valuable.
 Observe and consider different dimension of
religion so that they can explore and show
understanding of similarities and
differences within and between different
religions.
 Discuss and present thoughtfully their own
and others’ views on challenging questions.
 Consider and apply ideas about ways in which
diverse communities can live together for
the well being of all.
 Discuss and apply their own and others’ ideas
about ethical questions.
Year A
History
A local history study
An aspect of British history that extends pupils’
chronological knowledge beyond 1066
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
Year B
History
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron
Age
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the
Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the
Confessor
Year C
History
The achievements of the earliest civilizations – an
overview of where and when the first civilizations
appeared and an in depth study of one of them
Year D
History
Ancient Greece
A non- European society
Geography
A study of human and physical geography of a region
of the UK (beach region) and a region within Europe
(beach region)
Types of settlement and land use
RE
Founders and Leaders - Christianity, Islam and
Judaism
Remembrance and war
Geography
South America – a study of human and physical
geography linked to 2016 Olympics in Brazil
(include some comparative work with UK)
RE
Places of Worship, special books and rules –
Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Geography
Amazing planet – climate zone, biomes, vegetation
belts, mountains and rivers
When it all goes wrong – earthquakes and volcanoes
(include some comparative work with UK)
RE
Special Days – Worship – Christianity, Judaism and
Islam
Living as a believer including pilgrimage
Geography
What is man doing to our world? Trade links, natural
resources, economic activity
(include some comparative work with UK)
RE
Beliefs about God and Rites of Passage –
Christianity, Judaism and Islam