Year 1

Theme

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Term 1

Autumn

Local History

Joseph Chamberlain

business

education

politician

government

tax imports

Industrial Revolution

significant

trading

products

population produced

agricultural

Matthew Boulton

business

manufacturer

steam engines

mills

minting

factories

Steam Engine

significant transportation

turbine

centuries

vital

locomotives consequence

Shakespeare

 playwright

theme

 era

 literature

treasured

renaissance

Term 2

Spring

Exploring the world

Queen Victoria & British Empire

Monarch

Monarchy

Legacy

Politics

memorial

Scott & Amundsen

expedition

Antarctic

South Pole

hero

explorers

secret

Cook finds Australia

navigator

explorer

voyage

captain

Sinking of Titanic

Luxury ship

Iceberg

First voyage

Atlantic crossing

disaster

warnings

Columbus

Explorer

civilisations centuries

disease

legacy

colonised

settlement

Term 3

Summer

Changing the World

Gutenberg & Printing Press

significant communicate

centuries

scribes

society pamphlets

Radio

influential communicate

navigation essential

broadcast

transmission

WWW (Tim Berners-Lee)

World wide web

internet communication influential

significant

First Flight / Wright Brothers

achievement sustained discoveries ancient centuries influential

Moon Landing & Neil Armstrong

commander achievements breakthrough

plaque

exploration

lunar achievement exploration

rivals

orbit

Year 2 

Theme

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Term 1

Autumn

London

The Gunpowder Plot

Houses of Parliament conspirators persecuted centuries government treason

Guy Fawkes 

decades congested flammable architects eyewitness extract

The Plague

Ancient

 outbreak

centuries eyewitness chronicles

Samuel Pepys

diary

 account deteriorate

The Great Fire of London

decades

congested

flammable

architects

eyewitness

extract

Term 2

Spring

War & Conflict

Battle of Camp  Hill

battle of Birmingham

parliamentarians

royalists

civil war

King Harold

Battle of Hastings

conquest descendants retreat

sources

tapestry

WWI & Armistice Day

Conditions

destruction assassination invaded

army

treaties

armistice

WWII

influences

decades 

evacuated  

propaganda

atomic

declaration

dispute

rationing

Winston Churchill

Prime minister

conservative

Britain

speeches

leader

victory

Term 3

Summer

Women who shaped  the world 

St Teresa of Calcutta

missionaries

nun

unfortunate

charity

admired

The Suffragettes

Suffragettes

 law

decade

hunger strike

politics

elections

campaigning

Rosa Parks

Activist

segregation significant

legacy

boycott

Mary Seacole

nurse

traveller

heroine

medals

medicine

-Link to Florence Nightingale

Queen E II as the longest serving monarch

monarch

coronation

decade

government

political

Year 3

Time sequence taught

Vocabulary

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

The Stone Age & Bronze Age

Autumn

ancestors    

consequence

climate     

nomadic

communal

historical sources

archaeologist    

identities

density    

sophisticated

preoccupied     

processions

societies  

ancient  

trade  

custom    

hoard 

approximately 

technology 

states  

irrigation 

communication 

extracting

preserved 

intricate  

Stone Age

Location

Settlements

Artefacts

Food and farming

Tools

Artefacts

Beliefs

Archeologists

Bronze Age

Travel and exploration

Location

Settlement

Artefacts

Beliefs

The Iron Age

Spring

conquest

significant 

influential  

legacy   

fortified

dominant 

fortifications 

inhabited   

surplus

Iron Age hill forts

Tribal kingdoms

Farming

Arts/culture/ society

Conflict

Romans

Summer

turmoil

frontiers

territory

constitution

dictator

assassinated

territory

economy

importing

exporting

prosperous

acknowledged

territories

 emperor

 sanitation

 resistance

archaeologists

 preservation

 erosion

 mosaics

 construction

 architects

Invasion

Boudicca’s Rebellion

Hadrian’s Wall

Religion: Gods and Goddesses

Roman impact on Britain – What did they leave behind?

Year 4

Time sequence taught

Vocabulary

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

The Anglo-Saxons and Scots

Autumn

descendants 

conquered

stability  

collapse 

chaos

upheaval

independent 

allegiance

medieval 

legacy

Christianisation 

pagan  

literature

Invaders and conflict

Settlement

Kingdoms and conquest

Artefacts and cultures

-Sutton Hoo

-Staffordshire Hoard

Conversion to Christianity

The Vikings

Spring

Scandinavia 

explorers

colonized 

evidence  

raid

reputation 

colonization 

volatile 

descendant 

Who were the Vikings?

Viking Sailors, traders and raiders

Resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first king of England

-Was he ‘so’ great?

Viking raids on Monasteries.

(Monks views in comparison to the Raiders)

Laws and justice

Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066

Ancient Egyptians

Summer

Influential 

fertile 

irrigation

immortality 

rituals

decipher 

canopic

jars

sarcophagus 

mummy

temples 

engineering 

architects  

commemorate

achievements 

afterlife 

preserve

essential

embalmed 

eternity

pharaoh

Society

Conflict

Food and farming/ Inventions

Beliefs and burials

Artefacts/

Rosetta Stone

Year 5

Time sequence taught

Vocabulary

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

The Ancient Greeks

Autumn

 democracy    

citizens  

philosophy  

civilisations

characteristic

features

democratic 

generation 

demigods 

techniques

amphoras 

lekythos

friezes

acoustics

engineering

Settlement and architecture

(Compare with Ancient Egyptians)

Society

Civilisation and government

(Compare with Ancient Egyptians)

Life/ Olympics/ Artefacts

Famous Greek thinkers

Myths and legends/ religion

Victorians

Spring

empire  

poverty  

revolution 

consequence 

law 

conditions

innovations

workforce 

economy  

representation 

parliament

exploration

uncharted 

missionaries

achievements 

Life in Victorian times.

Factories

Technology

What was created?

Who by?

The British Empire

Use a timeline to identify significant events in the Victorian era

Tudors

Summer

monarch 

medieval

legacy

reformation

alliance

heir

rebellion

parliament

military

devout

civil war 

prosperity

flourish 

philosophy  

expedition

The Battle of Bosworth

Religion – Henry V111

Family Tree

Queen Elizabeth 1

Tudor Monarchs

Year 6

Time sequence taught

Vocabulary

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

The Maya

Autumn

abandoned

over population

uninhabitable

traditions

irrigation

terracing

architects

agriculture

expansion

yields

sacrifice

ceremony

anthropologists

innovations

codices

codex

conquistadors

Location

Settlement

Food/ farming

(Link to Ancient Egytpitans)

Religion/ compare and contrast with own religion

Writing

Artefacts

(Link to Ancient Egytpitans)

Why did the civilisation collapse?

WWII & Impact

Spring

Communism

significant

influences

decades 

evacuated

evacuation 

propaganda

amphibious 

Blitz 

atomic

Holocaust 

legacies 

declaration

dispute

rationing

Why did WW11 occur?

Battles

Key figures

The impact of WW11

War time Saltley

Saltley & Immigration – local study

Summer

local

immigration

Irish

Catholic

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Islamic

Muslim

Christian

inner-city

Adderley

Industrial

Parish

densely populated

railway

Saltley Gate

terraced houses

Saint Peter’s College

Push factors

Saltley and Its Origins

Industry/

Travel

Immigration

The Battle of Saltley

Local places of importance e.g. The Rosary Catholic Primary School/ Saint Peters College.