Humanities

Term 1 

Term 2 

Term 3 

Term 4 

Term 5 

Term 6 

Year 1 

Changes within living memory 

Countries of the UK 

Continents and oceans 

The lives of significant people 

Capital cities of UK 

Seas around UK 

More lives of significant people 

Hot and cold places  

Mapping and Fieldwork 

Year 2 

Events beyond living memory 

(Great Fire of London) 

Human and Physical features 

(Local Study) 

Significant historical events, people and places in our locality 

Compare a small part of the UK to a non-European country 

Significant historical events, people and places in our locality 

Fieldwork and map skills 

Year 3 

Stone Age/ Iron age 

Human and Physical features 

Stone Age/ Iron age 

 UK Study 

Rome and the impact on Britain 

UK Study continued 

OS Maps and Scale 

Year 4 

Britain’s settlement by Anglo- Saxons and Scots 

Rivers 

Latitude and longitude 

Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor 

Ancient civilisation 

Latitude and longitude 

Water cycle 

Ancient civilisation 

Map skills- Environmental regions 

Year 5 

Ancient Greece 

World Countries- biomes and environmental regions 

Comparison study- Maya and Anglo-Saxons 

Map skills: 4/ 6 grid references 

Comparison study – Maya and Anglo-Saxon 

OS Maps and Fieldwork 

Year 6 

Physical Processes- Earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes 

Significant Monarchs 

Human and Physical Geography-economic, settlement and trade links 

Battle of Britain 

OS Maps and Fieldwork 

Windrush Generation