| Children can: | |
| a | Start to compare two versions of a past event. |
| b | Observe and use pictures, photographs and artefacts to find out about the past. |
| c | Start to use stories or accounts to distinguish between fact and fiction. |
| d | Explain that there are different types of evidence and sources that can be used to help represent the past. |
Year 2 – History
Historical Interpretations - Core Skills
YEAR 2 - Examples of 'Expected' in the core skill of - Historical Investigations
Historical Investigations - Core Skills
| Children can: | |
| Plan: | |
| a | Observe or handle evidence to ask and answer simple questions about the past on the basis of simple observation. |
| b | Choose and select evidence and say how it can be used to find out about the past. |
YEAR 2 - Examples of 'Expected' in the core skill of - Chronological Understanding
Chronological Understanding - Core Skills
| Children can: | |
| a | Sequence artefacts and events that are close together in time and order dates from earliest to latest on simple timelines. |
| b | Sequence pictures from different periods. |
| c | Describe memories and changes that have happened in their own lives. |
| d | Use words and phrases such as: old, new, earliest, latest, past, present, future, century, new, newest, old, oldest, modern, before, after to show the passing of time |
YEAR 2 - Examples of 'Expected' in the core skill of - Knowledge and Understanding of Events, People and Changes in the Past
Knowledge and Understanding of Events, People and Changes in the Past - Core Skills
| Children can: | |
| a | recognise some similarities and differences between the past and the present; |
| b | identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods; |
| c | know and recount episodes from stories and significant events in history; |
| d | understand that there are reasons why people in the past acted as they did; |
| e | describe significant individuals from the past. |
YEAR 2 - Examples of 'Expected' in the core skill of - Presenting, Organising and Communicating
Presenting, Organising and Communicating - Core Skills
| Children can: | |
| a | Show an understanding of historical terms, such as monarch, parliament, government, war, remembrance; |
| b | Talk, write and draw about things from the past; |
| c | Use historical vocabulary to retell simple stories about the past; |
| d | Use drama/role play to communicate their knowledge about the past. |
Fluency examples from KS1:
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