The Empire Years

History

• Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
• Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information
• Study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

Geography

• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

PSHE

• Understand that differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including family, cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.
• Realise the nature and consequences of discrimination, teasing, bullying and aggressive behaviours.

English

• LKS2: Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• UKS2: Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.