KS1 & KS2 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of contrasting periods that they built in the Year 1 unit on the changes to seafaring over time. It also builds on what pupils have learnt about rulers and their behaviours in units on traditional stories and significant rulers, showing how rulers can be either barriers to or supporters of change. This unit prepares pupils for later studies in key stage 3 about how individuals and groups have fought for or achieved change.

1. Al-Razi, the doctor who cared for everyone
2. Nicolas Copernicus, the man who moved the Earth
3. Ada Lovelace, the woman who imagined computers
4. Marie Curie, the woman who lit up science
5. Sophia Duleep Singh, the princess who fought for women to have the vote
6. Nelson Mandela, the man who forgave

• An awareness of how the public can respond to certain events or developments, as introduced in 'Changes within living memory: what changed during Elizabeth II's lifetime?'
• A broad awareness the past is not unified, and contains multiple societies, places and people at different times.
• A basic ability to recognise that past people, events and societies were not always contemporaneous.
• An awareness that historians are sometimes interested in how things changed in the past.
• An awareness of how we study the lives of some individuals because of their actions or thoughts.