KS1 & KS2 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on knowledge and vocabulary about the earliest humans that pupils developed in the previous unit about Stone Age Britain. It develops their understanding of some of the themes they encounter in this unit such as migration, settlement, farming, transport, trade and artisanship. This unit prepares pupils for their study of major Bronze Age civilisations such as Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley, Sumer and the Shang dynasty in China in year 3.

1. The first use of bronze
2. How bronze changed life in Britain
3. The beginning of the Iron Age
4. Changing agriculture in Britain during the Iron Age
5. Changing settlements and trade in Iron Age Britain
6. Comparing and contrasting Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain

• Pupils should already be able to talk about events in the past and use some appropriate vocabulary to talk about the past.
• Pupils should be able to interpret a simple timeline of events in chronological order.
• Pupils should be able to identify similarities and differences between ways of life at different times.
• Pupils should know that various types of humans had lived in the area of the modern British Isles during the Stone Age.
• Pupils should know that by the late Stone Age, humans in Britain farmed, settled and used stone tools.