Key Stage 1 – History

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Key Stage 1 History: Teaching for every child

<>In history children learn to place events in chronological order, and about the lives of men, women and children from the history of Britain and the wider world. They also look at significant events, such as Remembrance Day or the Olympic Games. They use books and other sources to help them ask and answer questions. They listen to stories and respond to them. They learn how the past is different from the present and ask: how have I changed? How has life changed for my parents, or others around me?

Key Stage 1 History: Targets for every child

Around age 7, most children are able to:

• use words about the passing of time (such as before, after, a long time ago, in the past) and put events in order
• realise that some things happened before anyone living now was born
• begin to recognise why people acted as they did and why some events happened
• understand that their own lives are different from those of people in the past
• ask questions about the past and answer them by talking to people, reading books, looking at photographs, handling objects, using computer sources or by visiting museums and historical sites
• see that the past has been represented in different ways and talk about some of these ways.

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This information is supplied by Parents Centre and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.