Year 1

• Homes- have home always been the same? Looking at past and present.

• Pirates of the past- flags, types of ships and boats.

• Ready, Steady, Grow- where do vegetables grow? Find it on a map.

• Pirates- Where are the oceans? Positional and directional language.

Year 2

• Great fire of London from 1666- why it started? What happened?

• Time travel- research 4 famous people, identify artefacts linked to famous people.

• Create time lines.

• Habitats- improving the environment.

• Come Dine With Me- Finding about the food and landscape of a chosen country.

• Oh I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside- Manmade and natural features at the seaside.

Year 3

• Ancient Egypt- food, clothes, entertainment, homes, Pharaohs, Gods.

• Hooray for Bollywood- Where is India? Look at past/present.

• A Better Bearwood- Improving the local environment.

• Dinosaurs- When were they around? Different types.

Year 4

• World War II- Create a WW2 timeline, building an Anderson shelter, recreate WW2 recipes.

• Electricity- Who discovered electricity?

• Chocolate- History of the Aztecs.

• Going Wild- finding countries on different maps at a varying scale, Research the culture of an African country.

• Co-ordinates- linked to geocaching, quadrant sampling, drawing plans and maps of the playground from a bird’s eye view.

Year 5

• The Dig- Romans- history of why they came to England, what was life like in Roman times? Produce history document about Roman artefacts.

• Africa- Where is Uganda in geographical terms? How far does food travel?

• The Dig- Bury a time capsule, creation of a history trail followed by geocaching.

Year 6

• The Vile Victorians- lifestyle, food, clothes, entertainment, Queen Victoria.

• Who lives in a house like this?- climate, weather in different countries, how houses are adapted.

• Martin Luther King- black history.