Local heritage is at the heart of our curriculum and we are fortunate to be surrounded by rich, diverse history in our locality. Where possible, local heritage is embedded throughout each topic, which enables pupils to focus on a ‘local’ area before moving to the ‘national’ and the ‘global’ scene.
| Year Group | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term |
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| EYFS | Talk about members of their immediate family and community. Name and describe people who are familiar to them. | Understand that some places are special to members of their community. Talk about their homes and comment on other homes. | Comment on images of familiar situations in the past. Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past. |
| Year One | Childhood Then and Now
NC: Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: How has childhood in the locality changed in the lifetime of my family?
| Homes Through History
NC: Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: Homes in my locality - Ellesmere. Identifying Tudor, Victorian and Georgian houses.
| Significant People - Great Explorers Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong
NC: The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods.
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| Year Two | Travel and Transport Through Time
Creative thinkers – The invention and development of the first plane, locomotive and car.
NC: Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
Local Heritage: Development of local canals – Llangollen and Ellesmere. | The Great Fire of London
NC: Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: The Criftins School Fire – comparison.
| Significant People- Florence Nightingale
NC: The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
Local Heritage: Dame Agnes Hunt – ‘Shropshire’s Florence Nightingale’. The pioneer of Orthopaedic Nursing.
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| Year Three | Ancient Egypt
NC: The achievements of the earliest civilizations.
| Ancient Greece
NC: A study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Local Heritage: The Olympic Games revival and movement from Greece to Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
| Kings and Queens
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066. The changing power of monarchs using case studies such as John, Anne and Victoria.
Local Heritage: Owain Glyndwr's Revolt against the rule of King Henry IV of England. Medieval Castle of Sycharth. King Charles I's visit to Chirk Castle.
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| Year Four | Stone Age to Iron Age
NC: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture
Local Heritage: Oswestry Iron Age Hill Fort.
| The Ruling Romans
NC: The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.
Local Heritage: What can we learn about the Roman settlement from our local city of Chester?
| The Victorians & Industrial Revolution
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Ellesmere Workhouse. Study of Victorian Cockshutt/Criftins - homes, families, jobs, education during the Victorian era.
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| Year Five | Entertainment and Leisure in the 20th Century
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Oswestry Picture Houses in the 1930s.
| Anglo Saxons
NC: Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life.
Local Heritage: Establishment of Shropshire. Influence of King Offa (of Merica) on the local area. Study of Offa’s dyke.
| Railways and their Growth -The first railways and how they shaped the country.
NC: A study of an aspect of history or a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality.
Local Heritage: Study of the Cambrian railways that closed in the 1960s. Focus on the Ellesmere – Wrexham line which went through Dudleston Heath (Trench Halt station).
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| Year Six | History of Medicine and Disease Call the doctor! How death, illness, injury and disease can change the course of history.
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Understand and describe the impact of the diphtheria outbreak in the local area. Focus on the family from The Bridgewater Hotel, Ellesmere.
| The Changing Role of Women
NC: A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Local Heritage: Eglantine Jebb - the first woman to found a global children’s charity (Save the Children). Campaigner for women’s rights.
| Mayan Civilisation
NC: A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history.
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