Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Years 1 and 2

Fire, Fire!

The Great Fire of London 1666

Samuel Pepys

The Gunpowder Plot 1605

King James

Guy Fawkes

Bakery, Leather buckets, London Monument, Thames, King Charles II, Samuel Pepys

Our Town

The Power Station – Built 1964

Family memories of them

People who worked there – class talk.

Into the Woods!

Robin Hood

Sherwood Forest

13^th century

Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Marian, arrow, castle. sheriff, gold, rich, poor, taxes, forest, Nottingham

Study of National Fairy Tales (National adventure)

British Monarchy

Royal, reign, queen, prince, duke, heir, monarchy, heritage, tradition

All about Orang-utans /Rainforests

Christopher Columbus (South America – Rainforest)

1451 – 1506

America, rainforest, Europe, discover, admiral, explore, captain, landfall, navigate, New World, compass, route

Here we are (Global adventure)

First Flight – The Wright Brothers

1867 - 1948

Aircraft, adventure, aerodynamic, buoyancy, cabin, cockpit, controls, device, cylinder, flight, force, horizon, glide, inventor, launch, navigate, throttle, turbulence, Wright

Years 3 and 4

The Terrible Tudors

Henry VIII

Wives

Comparison of lifestyles

Tudor Houses

Reign of the Tudors

kirtle, ruff, doublet, breaches, corset, stockings, Monarch, Henry VIII, divorce, beheaded, reign, era

Our local library (Local adventure)

Rugeley history – William Palmer

Visit library to research

The Stone Age

Changes in British history – stone age to iron age.

Skara Brae – stone built Neolithic settlement

Spear, Skara Brae, fur pelt, Neolithic, mammoth, antler, weapons, stone, tools, sabre – toothed tiger, gatherer, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, homo sapiens  

Town is by the sea (National adventure)

Blue Abyss

 Clean Water and Sanitation (Global adventure)

Years 5 and 6

Romans

British settlement by Anglo – Saxons and Scots – Roman withdrawal from Britain on AD410 and the fall of the Roman Empire – This must be included

Julius Caesar 100BC – 44BC

Conquer, invasion, aqueduct, gladiator, Colosseum, mythology, roads, senate, tunic, armour, chariot, Pantheon, centution

Rugeley Miners

Coal mining in UK began 1200s – Industrial Revolution expands link to Victorians – just a note to remind children

Lea Hall Colliery opens 1960

Closed in 1991

Mexico

Mayans 2600 BC – 900AD Around the same time as Romans – Contrast

archaeologist, historian, invade, abandoned, kingdom, hostile, port, drought, settlement

Sports Relief (National adventure)

Inventions

Tim Berners – Lee – Internet 1955

World Wide Web, inventor, engineer, internet, scientist

Deforestation (Global adventure)

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Years 1 and 2

The Victorians

Life of a child

Comparisons of life now

Mary Seacole

Florence Nightingale

Queen Victoria

Our School (Local adventure)

JBPS 1980? Building changes in the school – past teacher / children class speaker

All About Chocolate!

John Cadbury 1801 - 1889

Bright Lights, Big Cities (National adventure)

Queen Elizabeth II – London – Buckingham Palace 1926

Growing Up

Changes in their living memory of themselves and family.

At the seaside, beach pollution (Global adventure)

Comparisons of holidays for the Victorians and now.

Years 3 and 4

Egyptians

Tutankhamun

Achievements of where and when civilisations appeared.

 Etching hill Rock (Local adventure)

Oh, the Places You’ll Go (Places in Europe)

Vikings

St. George and the Dragon (National adventure)

23^rd April 2023 St Georges Day – why and  it is celebrated in the country

Misty Mountains

 Climate Action (Global adventure)

David Attenborough – biography 1926

Years 5 and 6

Battles of Britain

World War II

Winston Churchill

The Blitz

The Use of Cannock Chase during WW1

Clearly highlight the dates on the timeline and how close the wars were together.

Ancient Greece

The study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the Western world (mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, kterature)

Alexander the Great

Olympics

Shakespeare Week

Forces of Nature

Sustainability and Recycling