During key stage 1, children learn about the lives of significant men, women, children from the recent and distant past, including those from both Britain and the wider world. They also look at significant events, such as Remembrance Day and Gunpowder Plot. They learn how the past is different from the present and how various kinds of data can be used to find out about events and how things have changed. They also learn how to weigh up evidence and reach conclusions.
At the end of Key Stage 1 (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
- 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, looking at photographs, reading books, handling objects, using computer sources or by visiting historical sites and museums
- put events in chronological order
- understand that some things happened before anyone who is living now was born
- recognise why people acted as they did and why some events happened
- realise that the past has been represented in different ways and talk about some of these ways
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