Overview for Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S) 

History

 Essential experience, knowledge and skills required for Autumn Year 1:

Key experiences: comparing modern and historical times through drawings and photographs, clothing and lifestyle, order events in their lives or in those of a famous person, use role-play to re-enact scenes from a key historical event.

Key knowledge: that things are different now than in the past, how their lives have changed as they have aged, awareness of some significant historical events and how they are remembered each year e.g. Remembrance Day.

Key skills: use technical vocabulary (e.g. now, old, new, before, after), compare evidence, noticing similarities and differences, use non-fiction books to find information, ask questions about a topic.

Geography

Essential experience, knowledge and skills required for Autumn Year 1:

Key experiences: answering a fieldwork question through direct observation of the local area, recording information on a map, table or chart (on paper, using 3D materials or using a computer), role-play to explore the experiences of people in different countries or cultures e.g. Chinese New Year workshop lion dance.

Key knowledge: that maps, globes and aerial photographs are representations of the Earth at different scales, names of some features of the landscape (e.g. river, mountain, beach, hospital, school, shop), maps often have symbols to represent larger features e.g. a cross for a church.

Key skills: use technical vocabulary (e.g. here, there, near, far, country), creating and labelling maps, asking and answering questions.

Area of Development

Understanding of the World

Early Learning Goals

(E.L.Gs)

Key vocabulary to be developed in EYFS

How this is achieved in EYFS

Links to KS1 National Curriculum

Past and Present

·          Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society

·          Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

·          Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and story telling

People, Culture and Communities

·          Describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts and maps

·          Explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on knowledge from stories, non-fiction texts and (when appropriate) maps

·          History

·          Historian

·          Before

·          After

·          New

·          Old

·          Now

·          Past

·          Present

·          Time

·          Change

·          Same

·          Map

Linked to C&L pupils will:

·         Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them

·         Describe events in some detail

·         Use some vocabulary in different contexts

·         Engage in non-fiction books

·         Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction to develop a deep familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary

In the ‘Early Years Plus’ classroom children learn about historical events through specific topics. They learn about where those events took place.

First Year Cycle

• Gunpowder Plot
•  History of Countess Anne School and
•   People Who Help Us

Second Year Cycle:

• The Great Fire of London
• First Man on the Moon and
• Far Away

In addition to this, children also learn about: 

·          Remembrance Day

·          Black History Month (e.g. Mary Seacole, Rosa Parks, Wilma Rudolph)

·          Royal Family – main events and celebrations

·          The local environment

·          Children learn to reflect on their learning – what did we do yesterday, last week, last year

·          Discussions about growing up, life cycles and growing plants to introduce change over time

·          Child- led learning inspired by books e. g, space, dinosaurs, lives in different countries

·          Looking at and drawing maps (treasure maps, ‘my way to school’, ‘a map of our classroom’, story maps 

·          Learning about different habitats and making comparisons

History links to KS1- National Curriculum

·          Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

·          Events beyond living memory that are significant national and globally

·          the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements

·          significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

Geography links to KS1 – National Curriculum

·         Pupils should develop knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality. They should understand basic subject-specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography and begin to use geographical skills, including first-hand observation, to enhance their locational awareness. (local knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography)