History at key stage 1

During key stage 1, children learn about people's lives and lifestyles. They find out about significant men, women and children and events from the recent and more distant past, including those from both Britain and the wider world. They listen and respond to stories and use sources of information to help them ask and answer questions. They learn how the past is different from the present.

In history, children acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding in five main areas:

• chronological understanding
• knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
• historical interpretation
• historical enquiry
• organisation and communication.

These aspects of knowledge, understanding and skills are developed in the programme of study for history through the following areas:

• changes in their own lives and the way of life of their family or others around them
• the way of life of people in the more distant past, who lived in the local area or elsewhere in Britain
• the lives of significant men, women and children drawn from the history of Britain and the wider world
• past events from the history of Britain and the wider world.