Humanities Spring Term topic and objectives:

How did the stone age and the iron age shape our world? (History)

• I can describe where people and events fit within a timeline and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods

• I can ask and answer questions choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that I know and understand key features of events

• I can show an understanding of some ways we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented

• I can describe changes within living memory and aspects of change in national life

• I can describe events beyond living memory that are significant nationally and globally

• I can use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms

• I can speak about how I have found out about the past

• I can record what I have learned through drawing and writing

What’s it like in the UK? (Geography)

• I can name and locate counties and cities of the United  Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human  and physical characteristics, key topographical features  (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use  patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have  changed over time. 

• I can understand geographical similarities and differences  through the study of human and physical geography of a  region of the United Kingdom.

• I can describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, rivers and mountains.

• I can describe the human geography, including: types of  settlement and land use.

• I can use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the  United Kingdom and the wider world. 

• I can use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and  present the human and physical features in the local area  using a range of methods, including sketch maps and plans.