Subject Key Objective Progression and Development by Year Groups

The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.

All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.

Children begin to answer questions about what happens next.

Children recognise the difference between present and past in their own and other people’s lives.

Children show their developing sense of chronology by using terms concerned with the passing of time.

Children show their developing understanding of chronology by their realisation that the past can be divided into different periods of time.

Children show their increasing understanding of chronology by recognising that the past can be divided into different periods of time.

Children begin to show factual knowledge and understanding of aspects of the history of Britain.

Children show factual knowledge and understanding of aspects of the history of Britain and the wider world.