Medium Term Plan – History

Phase – Years 1 and 2

Year 1 / Year 2
Autumn 1 / Civilisations Long Ago
  1. The Ice Age
  2. The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
  3. The difference between pre-history and written history
/ Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
  1. Mesopotamia - an ancient civilisation, cuneiform writing and the Code of Hammurabi
  2. Ancient Egypt - Gods, Pharaohs and Pyramids
  3. The importance of the Nile River

Autumn 2
Spring 1 / Kings, Queens and Rulers
  1. The United Kingdom and the formation of the Union Jack
  2. The Magna Carta, King John and the limits on his power
  3. The role of our Queen
/ The Romans
  1. The Romans invade Britain 43AD
  2. Roman settlements in Britain
  3. Technological advances - roads, sewage, public baths, water supply systems, literacy and written records

Spring 2 / Anglo-Saxons
  1. Anglo-Saxon life
  2. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
  3. Alfred the Great

Summer 1 / Rights and Responsibilities
  1. William and Mary, The Declaration of Rights
  2. Our Parliament
  3. The role of our Prime Minister
/ Vikings
  1. Viking culture - known for exploration and invasion
  2. Viking invasion of Britain - settlements including Jorvik (York) and Dublinia (Dublin)
  3. The Danelaw

Summer 2 / Normans
  1. Spread of Christianity in Britain before the Norman Invasion
  2. Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings
  3. The Domesday Book

Medium Term Plan – History

Phase – Years 3 and 4

Year 3 / Year 4
Autumn 1 / Ancient Greece
  1. Ancient Greek life - Sparta, Athens as a city state, democracy in Athens
  2. Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses
  3. Ancient Greek thinkers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
/ The Stuarts
  1. The Monarchs of the House of Stuart
  2. The Union of the Crowns
  3. The Gunpowder Plot

Autumn 2 / Rule of Law and Restraints on Royal Power
  1. Henry II - his changes to the legal and judicial systems
  2. The Crusades - attempts to gain control of Holy Land, Richard I of England and King John
  3. The Magna Carta - restraint on Royal power
/ The Civil War
  1. Charles I
  2. Roundheads and Cavaliers
  3. Execution of Charles I and the Commonwealth

Spring 1 / Wars of the Roses and the Reformation
  1. Conflicts between the Houses of Lancaster and York
  2. The Princes in the Tower (Edward V and his brother Richard)
  3. The Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor, of Lancastrian descent, defeats Richard II, marries Elizabeth of York to end the wars and unite the two houses
/ Plague and Fire
  1. The Great Plague
  2. The Great Fire of London
  3. Christopher Wren and the rebuilding of London

Spring 2 / The Elizabethan Era
  1. Elizabeth I - The final Tudor monarch
  2. Spanish Armada
  3. Exploration and Culture - Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare
/ The Founding of Rome and The Punic Wars
  1. The Legend of Romulus and Remus
  2. The Republic - senate, patricians, plebeians
  3. The Punic Wars - Hannibal and his elephants

Summer 1 / India, China and Japan
  1. India - Indus and Ganges Rivers, Hinduism, Buddhism
  2. China - Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, Confucius, invention of paper and silk, Chinese New Year
  3. Japan – islands, major cities, origami, kimonos, feudal Japan, the Samurai
/ Julius Caesar
  1. Caesar - The Dictator of Rome
  2. Cleopatra
  3. Rome after Caesar

Summer 2 / Ancient Rome and The Roman Empire
  1. Life in the Roman Empire - The Forum, The Colosseum, Roads, Bridges, Aqueducts
  2. Mount Vesuvius - The Destruction of Pompeii
  3. The fall of Rome - the legend of Nero fiddling (playing the Violin) as Rome burns

Medium Term Plan – History

Phase – Years 5 and 6

Year 5 / Year 6
Autumn 1 / The Rise of Islam
  1. The Prophet Muhammad, The Qur’an, Mecca, Mosques
  2. The Development of Islamic civilisation, science and maths (Arabic numerals), centres of art and learning such as Cordoba in Spain
  3. Conflicts between Christians and Muslims - the Holy Land, the Crusades, Saladin and Richard the Lionheart
/ The American Civil War
  1. Causes - industrial North and agricultural South, slavery, election of Lincoln as president
  2. Conflicts - Yankees (representing the union), rebels (representing the confederacy), soldiers, The Emancipation Proclamation, Richmond (confederate capital) falls to the unionist forces
  3. Consequences - assassination of Lincoln, reconstruction of the union, end of slavery

Autumn 2 / The Creation of Great Britain
  1. The Act of the Union
  2. George I from Hanover in Germany
  3. Robert Walpole (the first Prime Minister)
/ The Industrial Revolution
  1. Technology - steam engines, canals, the invention of the power loom
  2. Social changes - poor conditions in factories and collieries, children working in dangerous conditions, unions
  3. Urbanisation - mechanisation of agriculture led to people moving to cities to seek work, poor housing conditions, cholera outbreaks

Spring 1 / The Birth of the British Empire
  1. Global trade
  2. India - East India Company
  3. The Royal Navy and the life of a sailor - scurvy, weevils, punishments
/ Social Reform
  1. The Luddites - resistance to mechanisation
  2. The Factory Act 1833 - no child workers under the age of nine, compulsory hours of schooling; factory inspectors to enforce the law
  3. The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace

Spring 2 / The American War of Independence
  1. The Boston Tea Party - British taxes with no representation
  2. Declaration of Independence - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
  3. Creation of the USA with George Washington as President
/ Political Reform
  1. Great Reform Act 1832 - increased the entitlement to vote from 3% of the population to 5%, small but significant change
  2. Ireland as a British colony - The Potato Famine
  3. Irish Independence

Summer 1 / The French Revolution
  1. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at Versailles - ‘Let them eat cake’
  2. The storming of the Bastille
  3. King and Queen beheaded and France becomes a republic (no monarchy)
/ The British Empire
  1. The growth of the British Empire around the world
  2. The Indian Mutiny 1857 - Indian soldiers in the British army rebelled against insensitivity to their religious customs and this turned into a nationwide rebellion against British rule
  3. The scramble for Africa - the Boer War, positive and negative aspects of the British Empire

Summer 2 / The Abolition of Slavery
  1. The trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas
  2. Slave transportation - slave ships
  3. The campaign for the abolition of slavery
/ The Victorian Age
  1. Coronation of Queen Victoria
  2. Inventions during the Victorian Age - the telephone, films, the aeroplane
  3. Life in the Victorian Age - schools, homes and the workplace