Develop skills in applying historical concepts to periods of study such as:

• Comparisons – similarities and differences within and across periods and classes
• Cause and effect/consequence
• Continuity, development and change
• Significance; turning points; key events

Develop and understanding of Historical Enquiry

• Evidence, artefacts and sources
• Interpretation, conclusion, bias, presentation of findings

Develop an historical perspective

• To use informed understanding of past human development and events to explain how the present came to be as it is and to guide judgement about future choices and actions
• To see patterns in human development across different periods and contexts and model how these forces might affect future decisions and development
• To extrapolate effects over a range of scales from local to global
• To consider the interconnectivity of wider functions of society; political, economic, social, religious and cultural, and how these impact on each other
• To determine relative effects over different time-scales of change

Develop a body of knowledge of British history and of early civilisation from other cultures/locations/periods, to inform the children’s understanding of their world in 21^st Century UK and the wider world.