The Manor School Progression Ladder – History
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Year:
Year 1
Chronology
Begin to use terms
related to time
passing.
Know some events in
a period studied and
begin to put them on
to a timeline.
Historical terms
Eg: Empire.
Historical enquiryUsing evidence/
communicating
ideas.
With support identify
some differences and
similarities between
modern day and the
past.
Begin to use historical
terms relevant to
period of study.
Answer questions
about the past and
begin to use different
methods to find out
these answers.
Retell historical
stories.
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Year 2
Year 3
Develop an awareness
of the past.
Know all the events/
people studied to fit in a
chronological
framework.
To be able to place
events and people
along a chronological
timeline relevant to
the period of study.
Identify similarities and
differences between
periods.
observe similarities
and differences
between societies
across different
periods and begin to
explain some of the
reasons for this.
Year 4
To have a clear
understanding of
chronologically
within history
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Year 5
To demonstrate
chronologically secure
knowledge of history
Be able to compile
To begin to compile narratives across a
short narratives
chosen period of study.
across a period of
study.
Begin to observe
changes and trends
Note changes
over a period of time.
occurring over this
period of time.
Year 6
Continue to develop
chronologically
secure knowledge of
history.
Establish clear
narratives within and
across periods
studied.
Note connections,
contrast and trends
over time.
Use a wide range of
historical terms.
Use accurate
historical term
related to the topic.
Use accurate
historical term
related to the
historical period
Develop the
appropriate use of
historical terms.
Develop the
appropriate use of
historical terms.
Ask and answer
questions. Understand
some ways we find out
about the past.
Choose and use parts of
stories and other
sources to show
understanding of
concepts.
Ask and answer
questions by using
different methods to
find these answers.
Begin to use a
variety of sources
to ask and answer
valid questions
about a period
studied.
Ask and answer
historically valid
questions. Begin to
examine how sources
can affect how the past
constructed.
Regularly address
and sometimes
devise historically
valid questions.
Understand how
knowledge of the
past is constructed
from a range of
sources.
Identify parts of
given sources that
represent their
historical thinking.
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Understand
through examining
source that the
past in represented
in different ways.
Identify changes
across a period of
study and begin to
explain reasons for
this.
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Interpretations of
History
Understand that the
past can be
represented
differently.
Identify different ways
in which the past is
represented.
Examine different
ways the past is
represented.
Explain that different
version of the past exist
begin to give reasons
for this.
Continuity and
change in and
between periods
Identify some
similarities and
difference between
their lives and those of
people in the past.
Identify similarities/
differences between
ways of life at different
times.
Identify changes that
have happened over
a period of time.
Cause and
Consequence
Begin to recognise
why people did things
and why events
happened
Recognise why people
did things, why events
happened and what
happened as a result.
Understand why
historical events
happened and the
changes that this
had on the period.
Similarity/
differences within
a period /
situation. ( social
diversity including
beliefs and
attitudes)
Significance of
events/ people
Begin to make some
simple observations
about a period of
study including people
and events.
Make simple
observations about
different types of
people, events and
belief within a society
Understand why
events happened in
the context of the
period studied, begin
to understand how
this effected wider
society.
Make observations
about the different
types of people
events and beliefs
across periods of
study.
Describe social and
religious diversity
within Britain.
Describe social, cultural,
religious, and begin to
describe ethnic diversity
in Britain and
sometimes the wider
world.
Describe social,
cultural, religious,
and ethnic diversity
in Britain and the
wider world.
Talk about who was
important.
Talk about who was
important.
Discuss significant
figures and why they
were important.
Discuss and explain
significant events
and people.
Begin to identify
historically significant
people and events.
Identify historically
significant people
and events in
situation.
Describe changes
between event and
situations across
different periods and
societies whilst
beginning to notice
patterns and links
Identify historical
events and changes.
Begin to give reasons
for these events and
changes.
Understand that
different versions of
the past exist, giving
some reasons for
this.
Describe/ make links
between main
events, situations
and changes within
and across different
periods/societies.
Identify and give
reasons for, and
results of, historical
events, situations,
changes.
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