The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

Year 1

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

The Soldiers who fought in WW1 (local area study).

Find answers to simple questions about the past from sources of information e.g. artefacts.

Year 2

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

Thomas Woodcock - WW1 Victoria Cross (local history study).

Use a source – observe or handle sources to answer questions about the past on the basis of simple observations.

Year 3

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

The children who had to be evacuated.

Use a range of sources to find out about a period

Observe small details – artefacts, pictures

Select and record information relevant to the study

Begin to use the library and internet for research

Year 4

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

The jobs women did during the War (local area links).

Use evidence to build up a picture of a past event

Choose relevant material to present a picture of one aspect of life in time past

Ask a variety of questions

Use the library and internet for research.

Year 5

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

The Blitz/Battle of Britain.

Begin to identify primary and secondary sources

Use evidence to build up a picture of a past event

Select relevant sections of information 

Use the library and internet for research with increasing confidence.

Year 6

Historical Enquiry - We Remember

WWI and the changes it brought.

Children will recognise primary and secondary sources

Use a range of sources to find out about an aspect of time past (WW1)

Suggest omissions and the means of finding out and bring knowledge gathered from several sources together in a fluent account.